Staff Software Engineer, IAM

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 .

What you’ll do

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Identity Access Management (IAM) team, you will be a primary architect of CoreWeave’s IAM strategy as we rapidly expand the platform. You will leverage your deep expertise in identity systems to design, extend, and harden a platform that secures our high-performance cloud infrastructure. This is a high-impact leadership role where you will balance rapid execution with the long-term technical vision necessary to meet the demands of our global enterprise customers.

About the role

Technical Strategy Vision: Partner with Product and Engineering Leadership to translate complex requirements into a multi-year technical roadmap that balances immediate business needs with long-term architectural integrity

System Architecture: Lead the design and implementation of high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems for authentication and authorization across all CoreWeave services

Platform Evolution: Architect customer-facing experiences for identity lifecycle management, IdP integration (SAML/OIDC), and granular permissioning models

Engineering Excellence: Champion a security-first mindset across the organization, establishing rigorous standards for code quality, design reviews, and threat modeling

Operational Leadership: Elevate the team’s operational maturity by defining SLOs, enhancing deep-stack observability, and driving automation to eliminate systemic toil

Technical Mentorship: Act as a force multiplier by mentoring Senior engineers and fostering a culture of continuous learning and high-performance engineering

Cross-Functional Influence: Drive alignment on critical security initiatives across the broader engineering organization, articulating complex technical trade-offs to stakeholders

Who you are

8+ Years of Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in a production environment using one or more of Go, TypeScript, or React

5+ Years of IAM Domain Expertise: Proven track record of developing identity products and a deep mastery of standards including OIDC, OAuth2.0, SAML, and JWT

Technical Leadership: Demonstrated experience leading large, cross-functional projects from inception to planet-scale deployment with measurable business impact

Cloud-Native Mastery: Deep understanding of Kubernetes, microservices architecture at scale, and advanced CI/CD patterns

Enterprise Security Acumen: Solid knowledge of the security, compliance (SOC2, HIPAA, etc.), and governance needs of sophisticated enterprise customers

Strategic Communication: Superb ability to synthesize ambiguous requirements into clear technical designs and communicate trade-offs to both executive and technical audiences

Analytical Problem Solving: Expert-level ability to debug complex, intermittent issues within distributed environments

Preferred

Architectural Transformation: Experience leading the decomposition of monolithic architectures into high-performance microservices

AI-Augmented Development: Familiarity with leveraging AI agents (e.g., Claude, Cursor) to accelerate the software development lifecycle

Emerging Tech Knowledge: Familiarity with AI/ML workloads, GPU-based infrastructure, and the unique security challenges of MLOps at scale

Policy-as-Code: Experience with modern authorization frameworks such as Open Policy Agent (OPA) or Cedar

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. Here are a few qualities we’ve found compatible with our team. If some of this describes you, we’d love to talk.

You love to solve complex problems and build high-scale, low-latency distributed systems.

You’re curious about how to evolve cloud platforms and scale infrastructure globally for the next generation of AI workloads.

You’re an expert in one or more preferred programming languages (Go, TypeScript, Python), and have deep technical knowledge of distributed systems.

Why CoreWeave?

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 Core

Act Like an Owner

Empower Employees

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