Principal Engineer, Distributed Systems

Experience designing and implementing authorization systems at high scale, including policy engines, permission models, policy distribution, decision services, enforcement points, or authorization observability.

Experience designing or operating a Security Token Service, identity platform, credential service, or comparable security-critical control plane.

Experience designing or operating an API Authentication Gateway, service-mesh authorization layer, or centralized authentication and authorization platform.

Experience operating systems with four-nines availability requirements, high request volume, strict latency objectives, and demanding reliability expectations.

Experience with multi-region architecture, regional failover, active-active or active-passive operation, replication, disaster recovery, and regional isolation.

Experience reasoning about strong, eventual, and bounded-staleness consistency models, especially for security policy, credentials, tokens, permissions, and revocation.

Experience designing for data residency, regional data controls, tenant isolation, trust-domain separation, and compliance-sensitive deployment models.

Experience building systems that remain secure and useful during dependency failures, network partitions, regional outages, stale data, degraded capacity, or partial compromise.

Experience with authentication and identity standards such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM, JWT, mTLS, SPIFFE/SPIRE, or related protocols.

Experience with cryptography, key management, HSMs, secrets management, certificate authorities, signing keys, token validation, or secure credential lifecycle management.

Experience with Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, service networking, distributed storage, messaging systems, and multi-cluster operations.

Experience building security and platform services with strong observability, including metrics, logs, traces, audit records, security events, and actionable alerting.

Experience working with enterprise customers, regulated workloads, or hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

In your first year, you will:

Establish a clear technical north star for Security Products’ authorization, authentication, and security-infrastructure capabilities.

Build strong working relationships with engineering and product leaders, staff-plus engineers, security teams, and the service teams that depend on these platforms.

Advance the architecture and delivery plan for high-scale authorization systems, the Security Token Service, and the API Authentication Gateway.

Improve the reliability, performance, observability, and operational maturity of critical security services against four-nines availability goals.

Help teams make explicit, durable decisions about multi-region design, data consistency, data residency, tenant isolation, fault tolerance, and security boundaries.

Reduce duplicated access-control and authentication patterns by enabling consistent, well-documented platform capabilities.

Raise the quality of architecture reviews, threat modeling, performance testing, capacity planning, and production readiness across Security Products.

Mentor senior engineers and help grow a strong technical leadership community.

Security Products is building the systems that make CoreWeave trustworthy at scale. You will work on foundational infrastructure that protects access to cloud resources, enables secure product experiences, and supports customers running critical AI workloads.

This is an opportunity to shape the architecture of a modern cloud security platform while solving problems at the intersection of distributed systems, security engineering, reliability, performance, and global-scale infrastructure.

This position is based in Sunnyvale, California or New York, New York and requires working on-site. Remote work is not available for this role.

CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics.

The base salary range for this role is $227,000 to $303,000. 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 program (all based on eligibility).

What We Offer

The range we’ve posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs. The benefits below reflect our US-based offerings for full-time employees; for roles in other locations, benefits vary and are shared during the hiring process. These include:

Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave

Company-paid Life Insurance

Voluntary supplemental life insurance

Short and long-term disability insurance

Flexible Spending Account

Health Savings Account

Tuition Reimbursement

Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health

Family-Forming support provided by Carrot

Paid Parental Leave

Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside

401(k) with a generous employer match

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations

A casual work environment

A work culture focused on innovative disruption

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Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.

As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: careers@coreweave.com.

Export Control Compliance

This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.