Staff Systems Engineer (Architect)

About the Team

IT Engineering at CoreWeave designs, builds, and operates the systems that enable our employees and acquired organizations to work securely and efficiently at scale. The team partners closely with Security, Business Development, PeopleOps, and Corporate functions to deliver resilient, standardized, and automation-first IT solutions that support CoreWeave’s rapid growth.

About the Role

As a Staff Systems Engineer, Enterprise Architect, you will own and evolve CoreWeave’s internal IT and SaaS ecosystem. This is a staff-level engineering role focused on building scalable, secure, and well-governed platforms that enable the business to operate efficiently.

We are looking for someone with strong systems engineering depth and hands-on development experience who can build internal tools, automation, and self-service capabilities that reduce manual operational work across IT. This role is not limited to administering systems; it requires someone who can identify repetitive processes, design durable solutions, and leverage APIs, workflow platforms, infrastructure-as-code, and AI-enabled tooling to improve how employees and IT teams get work done.

You will act as a broad technical owner across core IT systems, including Google Workspace, Slack, domain infrastructure, Cloudflare, and other enterprise SaaS platforms. Beyond operating these systems, you will drive standardization, automation, rationalization, and self-service, ensuring our environment remains sustainable as the company scales.

This role requires strong technical judgment and leadership, including the ability to identify and reduce technical debt, deprecate unsupported tools, and guide the business toward durable, supportable solutions. You will partner closely with Identity, Security, Infrastructure, and business stakeholders to ensure CoreWeave’s IT platform is reliable, secure, automated, and built for long-term scale.

What You’ll Do

• Own and operate CoreWeave’s core IT platform, including Google Workspace, Slack, Cloudflare, DNS/domain infrastructure, and other enterprise SaaS systems.
• Design and maintain secure, scalable configurations across collaboration, communication, and edge/network-adjacent platforms.
• Build internal self-service tools, automations, and workflows that reduce manual IT tasks, improve employee experience, and allow business teams to complete common requests without direct IT intervention.
• Develop production-grade automation using APIs, scripting, workflow platforms, infrastructure-as-code, and AI-enabled capabilities where appropriate.
• Identify high-volume, repetitive, or manual operational processes and convert them into scalable automated or self-service solutions.
• Leverage AI-assisted tooling and intelligent workflows to improve operational efficiency, reduce ticket volume, accelerate troubleshooting, and streamline knowledge access.
• Manage DNS, domain lifecycle, and email authentication, including DKIM, SPF, and DMARC.
• Drive tooling rationalization by identifying redundant, legacy, or unsupported systems and leading consolidation or deprecation efforts.
• Establish and enforce standards for system ownership, supportability, lifecycle management, and automation readiness.
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code for IT systems using APIs, Terraform, workflow platforms, and internal development frameworks.
• Improve IT asset management, system inventory, lifecycle tracking, and SaaS governance across internal tooling.
• Enhance observability, reliability, and operational health of IT systems.
• Partner with Identity and Security teams to ensure proper access controls, integrations, approvals, and policy enforcement across platforms.
• Lead onboarding of new tools with a focus on standardization, integration, automation, self-service, and long-term maintainability.
• Develop and maintain documentation, standards, runbooks, and knowledge systems that support scalable IT operations.
• Serve as a senior escalation point for complex system issues and participate in on-call as needed.
• Drive continuous improvement in automation, architecture, developer experience, employee self-service, and operational maturity.

What You Bring

Required

• 7–10+ years of experience in IT systems engineering, enterprise IT, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a similar technical role.
• Proven experience operating as a broad IT generalist across SaaS platforms and core IT systems.
• Strong hands-on development or automation experience, with the ability to design, build, test, deploy, and maintain internal tools or production-grade automations.
• Experience building self-service tools, portals, workflows, chat-based automations, approval systems, or internal applications that reduce manual work for IT or business teams.
• Deep hands-on experience with several of the following:
  • Google Workspace
  • Slack
  • DNS and domain management
  • Cloudflare or similar platforms
  • Email authentication, including DKIM, SPF, and DMARC
  • AWS, GCP, Azure, or IT-related cloud workloads
• Full-stack automation mindset with deep, hands-on experience using Python, PowerShell, TypeScript, Go, or similar languages.
• Experience integrating systems using APIs, webhooks, event-driven workflows, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience with Terraform.
• Ability to evaluate manual processes and design scalable automated or self-service alternatives.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled productivity, automation, or workflow tools, with an understanding of how to apply AI responsibly to improve operational efficiency.
• Strong understanding of system design, scalability, reliability, and operational best practices in SaaS-heavy environments.
• Experience managing or improving IT asset management and system inventory.
• Ability to evaluate systems and drive decisions around standardization, consolidation, deprecation, and lifecycle management.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across SaaS platforms, integrations, APIs, automation pipelines, and infrastructure-adjacent systems.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders, gather requirements, and drive cross-functional technical decisions.

Preferred

• Experience in high-growth or cloud-native environments.
• Experience working closely with Identity teams using tools such as Okta, Entra ID, or similar platforms.
• Experience working closely with Security teams on access controls, auditability, compliance, and policy enforcement.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, SOX, or GDPR.
• Experience with workflow automation tools such as Workato, Tines, Zapier, ServiceNow Flow Designer, or similar platforms.
• Experience building AI-assisted workflows, chatbots, knowledge retrieval tools, or intelligent automation for internal operations.
• Experience managing SaaS sprawl and implementing governance frameworks.
• Background in platform standardization, enterprise IT architecture, internal developer platforms, or employee self-service platforms.
• Experience designing request intake, approval, provisioning, and lifecycle workflows across SaaS and identity systems.

Why This Role Matters

Core IT systems are foundational to how the company operates. In this role, you will ensure these systems are not only functional, but intentional, scalable, automated, and sustainable.

You will play a key role in reducing complexity, eliminating technical debt, and transforming manual IT processes into self-service capabilities that scale with the business. By building tools, automations, and AI-enabled workflows, you will help CoreWeave reduce operational friction, improve employee experience, and ensure the company can grow without being slowed down by fragmented, manual, or unmanaged tooling.

Wondering if You’re a Good Fit?

We believe in investing in our people and value candidates who bring diverse experiences—even if you don’t meet every requirement. You may be a great fit if:

• You love building repeatable systems and processes from scratch.
• You’re curious about how identity, security, and SaaS ecosystems scale during rapid growth.
• You’re an expert at translating complex technical work into clear, executable integration plans.

Why CoreWeave?

At CoreWeave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast. We’re in an exciting phase of hyper-growth, embracing a little chaos while constantly learning and improving. Our teams care deeply about how we build and how we work together, guided by our core values:

• Be Curious at Your Core
• Act Like an Owner
• Empower Employees
• Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences
• Achieve More Together

The base salary range for this role is $207,000 to $275,000. 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).