Staff Engineer, Network Observability

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><div> <div> <div class="gmail_quote"> <div> <div><span id="m_1770241969069985273m_-2746164444908759431gmail-docs-internal-guid-131e4fb0-7fff-b4e9-ff50-e8cf32449b1b">CoreWeave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, CoreWeave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, CoreWeave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, CoreWeave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025. Learn more at <a href="http://www.coreweave.com/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.coreweave.com&source=gmail&ust=1762613132717000&usg=AOvVaw3D-UOhNaqEvF5BEWxjYyAU">www.coreweave.com</a>.</span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div><h3 class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><strong>What You'll Do:</strong></h3> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">The <strong>Network Observability</strong> team is responsible for how CoreWeave observes, understands, and operates its network at scale. As a Staff Engineer for Network Observability, you will define and evolve the technical direction for network observability, partnering across Network Engineering, SRE, Platform, and adjacent infrastructure teams to build resilient telemetry systems, raise engineering standards, and turn observability into a strategic advantage for the business.</p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">Your mission: build and scale a network observability platform that provides CoreWeave fast, trustworthy insight into network behavior, enables proactive risk detection, improves how engineering teams make decisions during both normal operations and incidents, and enables closed-loop automation workflows.</p> <h3 class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><strong>In this role, you will:</strong></h3> <ul class="[li_&]:mb-0 [li_&]:mt-1 [li_&]:gap-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Set technical direction for network observability across multiple teams, ensuring the platform, data models, and telemetry strategy align with long-term engineering and business goals</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Lead the design and evolution of scalable observability solutions using diverse collector technologies (e.g., gNMI, SNMP, Prometheus scraping, OTEL, logs, flows, etc.), persistence databases (e.g., Prometheus-like, Loki, Clickhouse), and visualization and alerting ones (e.g., Grafana, Alertmanager), with a strong focus on reliability, usability, and future scale</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Drive cross-team initiatives to standardize observability patterns, improve signal quality, and create a consistent approach to logs, metrics, events, flows, and related diagnostics across the network stack</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Partner closely with engineering leadership and technical stakeholders to prioritize investments, navigate ambiguity, and make high-leverage technical tradeoffs that improve resilience, scalability, and operator efficiency</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Act as a go-to technical expert for critical observability challenges, especially when incidents, architectural complexity, or unclear ownership require strong judgment and coordination</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Mentor junior and senior engineers through technical reviews, design guidance, and hands-on problem solving, raising the bar for engineering quality and multiplying the impact of the broader team</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Participate in design discussions, RFCs, and architectural decisions across the broader infrastructure organization, helping teams converge on scalable, maintainable solutions</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Join a rotating on-call schedule as a senior escalation point for observability-related issues, helping teams quickly isolate failures, improve incident response, and drive durable follow-through after outages</li> </ul> <h3 class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal"><strong>Who You Are:</strong></h3> <ul class="[li_&]:mb-0 [li_&]:mt-1 [li_&]:gap-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Deep expertise in building flexible network observability solutions, with diverse implementation options for collectors, distribution, processing, persistence, alerting, analytics, and visualization</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Experience as a Network Engineer, SRE, Software Engineer, or…