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CoreWeave is seeking a highly skilled and motivated manager to join our Kernel HAVOCK Team, reporting to the Director of Compute Architecture.
Kernel Hardware - Acceleration - Virtualization - Operating Systems - Containerization - Kubelet
In this role, you will manage the team responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing CoreWeave’s bare-metal systems. The team’s primary responsibilities include maintaining a custom Linux kernel, various OS images (Ubuntu-based), the virtualization stack (kubevirt/qemu/vfio), and the container/pod runtime stack (containerd/nydus/kubelet). You will be responsible for establishing and maintaining the team’s roadmap, creating a hiring plan to grow the team and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams.
Our Team’s Stack:
- Linux Kernel (custom build, currently tracking Ubuntu HWE)
- Intel/AMD CPUs, Nvidia GPUs, DPUs, Infiniband and Ethernet NICs
- KubeVirt, QEMU, SR-IOV, vfio-pci
- Ubuntu 22.04
- Containerd, Kubelet
Your Responsibilities:
- Build and lead distributed teams who are focused on rapidly delivering high quality results
- Identify opportunities to improve process flows and speed through systems and tools
- Develop measurable goals for teams, and ensure alignment across teams to deliver
- Facilitate constructive communication across all teams, and provide coaching and counseling to team leads by mentoring, one-on-one meetings, and regular performance feedback
- Work closely with recruiting team to attract and evaluate talent
Team Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain tooling to build custom Linux kernels and stateless OS images
- Automate packaging of critical components (drivers, microcode, components with out-of-tree patches, etc)
- Serve as a senior point of contact for hardware issue escalation and troubleshooting
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define Linux and OS requirements, specifications, and system architecture
- Analyze and optimize the performance of bare-metal and virtualized systems, identify bottlenecks, and propose improvements for enhanced efficiency
Requirements:
- A passion for leading emerging teams in a fast-paced environment
- Experience coaching and managing other leaders, and senior level staff that work on challenging issues and solutions that are scalable and executed rapidly
- Prior success in creating processes and developing cross-disciplinary collaboration between engineering, operations, support, sales and product groups
- Enthusiasm for staffing, interviewing, growing and retaining talent
- Passionate about operational excellence
- Excellent communication and organization skills to drive cross-disciplinary collaboration
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Exceptional attention to detail and follow-up
- Start-up with growth experience preferred
Nice-to-haves:
- Prior experience managing distributed teams of Linux kernel developers / maintainers
- Prior experience working upstream with large open source projects (Linux kernel, kubernetes, etc)
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $200,000-$230,000. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
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, including:
- 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
- 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
Our Workplace
While we prioritize a hybrid work environment, remote work may be considered for candidates located more than 30 miles from an office, based on role requirements for specialized skill sets. New hires will be invited to attend onboarding at one of our hubs within their first month. Teams also gather quarterly to support collaboration
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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: [email protected].
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