Engineering Manager - Observability

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 www.coreweave.com. We're proud to be a Living Wage accredited Employer. What You'll Do The Observability Engineering organisation at CoreWeave is responsible for the platforms and practices that help engineers understand, operate, and improve production systems at scale. This team owns and evolves the foundations for metrics, logs, traces, telemetry pipelines, and observability reliability, enabling teams to detect issues quickly, troubleshoot complex distributed systems, and operate AI infrastructure with confidence. About The Role As an Engineering Manager, Observability, you will lead a team responsible for building, scaling, and operating observability systems across metrics, logs, traces, and telemetry pipelines. You will define technical strategy and roadmaps, drive platform reliability and performance improvements, and guide architectural decisions across our observability infrastructure. In this role, you will partner closely with infrastructure, platform, security, and application engineering teams to improve instrumentation, enhance production visibility, and drive platform adoption. Combining technical leadership, operational ownership, and people management, you will recruit and develop talent while ensuring observability platforms scale seamlessly with business growth and customer demand. Who You Are 8+ years of software engineering experience with production systems at scale4+ years of engineering management experience leading senior engineers and technical leadsExperience building and operating observability platforms across logs, metrics, traces, and alerting in distributed systemsKnowledge of reliability engineering concepts including SLOs, SLIs, incident management, error budgets, and fault-tolerant designExperience scaling telemetry systems including collection pipelines, storage backends, and query layersExperience with distributed systems, performance engineering, and trade-offs involving scale, resilience, and costExperience partnering with infrastructure, security, and application engineering teams to drive platform adoptionExperience hiring and managing engineering teams Preferred Experience with OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus-compatible systems, log aggregation, and distributed tracing toolsExperience operating cloud-native infrastructure, including Kubernetes environmentsExperience supporting large-scale cloud, developer platforms, or AI/ML infrastructureFamiliarity with capacity planning for high-ingest telemetry systemsExperience scaling platforms in high-growth environments Wondering if you're a good fit? We believe in investing in our people, and value candidates who can bring their own diversified experiences to our teams—even if you aren't a 100% skill or experience match. You love to: Solve complex systems problems across infrastructure, reliability, and developer productivity.You're curious about: Improving observability, debugging workflows, and large-scale distributed systems.You're an expert in: Balancing scalability, reliability, and cost in production environments. Why CoreWeave? About At CoreWeave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast! We're in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss out on. We're not afraid of a little chaos, and we're constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together, which is represented through our core values: Be Curious at Your CoreAct Like an OwnerEmpower EmployeesDeliver Best-in-Class Client ExperiencesAchieve More Together We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and enables the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for take-off, the organisation's growth opportunities are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too. Come join us! Compensation The base salary range for this role is 321,000 PLN to 428,000 PLN gross annually. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits programme (subject to eligibility). To fulfill our obligation to protect client data, successful applicants offered employment with CoreWeave will be required to complete a basic criminal record check, conducted in compliance with GDPR. Employment offers are conditional upon receiving satisfactory check results. What We Offer In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs, including: Family-level Medical InsuranceFamily-level Dental Insurance Generous Pension Contribution Life Assurance at 4x Salary Critical Illness Cover Employee Assistance Programme Tuition ReimbursementWork culture focused on innovative disruption Benefits may vary by location. Equal Opportunity CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. 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