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CoreWeave

Operations Engineering Manager, Fleet Reliability

CoreWeave is hiring an Operations Engineering Manager, Fleet Reliability in Washington DC, United States. It pays $143k-$210k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on CoreWeave.

Level's read on this job

  • Level rates this role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
  • The posting mentions fleet management, reliability and operations management among its tools and skills.
  • Level classes it as a lead role.
  • CoreWeave has 317 other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

Manage the fleet reliability operations team maintaining and scaling cloud infrastructure for AI workloads.

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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

The Fleet Reliability Operations Team is the heart of CoreWeave’s capacity delivery and maintenance effort. This team is responsible for provisioning, updating and triaging server nodes, and executing the processes and tooling that configure and validate our server fleet. This team is the first in line to respond to hardware issues in production, and is empowered to drive automation and observability design and priority for our server fleet lifecycle.

We are seeking an Operations Manager for the Fleet Reliability Operations team who can help us maintain and improve our high volume of delivery and scale as we 10x the size of our fleet. This individual will develop a strong pipeline of talent, manage onboarding and training, provide process and thought leadership across the team’s domain, and champion reliability and customer satisfaction. As the manager of this team, you would have the opportunity to:

  • Build and lead a 24/7 team of process-oriented, reliability and observability-focused engineers.
  • Lead the socialization and documentation of clear and consistent processes for provisioning, validating and troubleshooting nodes in our server fleet.
  • Think critically about and advocate for process and automation improvements prioritizing event-driven automated remediation as the end goal.
  • Provide a 24/7 engineering support function for high-criticality, time-sensitive node delivery and maintenance.
  • Drive and improve our program of onboarding, documentation, enablement, and performance management to help your team members achieve new heights of personal growth and capability.
  • Drive the culture and tone for how your team keeps score both in how they communicate with and support each other and how they enable the rest of CoreWeave.

Who You Are

  • You have seven or more years of experience in a software or infrastructure engineering industry, of which at least two years were in a leadership capacity.
  • You have a background that includes the knowledge and practice of SRE fundamentals, incident management, blameless culture, observability, and change management.
  • You believe in the value of automation and will champion practices that drive reliability and drive the adoption of cross-team processes and tooling.
  • You love helping people on their journeys to become their best selves and are comfortable extending the range of your influence to partners, peers, and senior leadership.

 

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
  • Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences
  • Achieve 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 takeoff, the organization'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! 

The base salary range for this role is $143,000 to $210,000. 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.

How we rate this

Operations Engineering Manager, Fleet Reliability at CoreWeave rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Fleet ManagementReliabilityOperations ManagementAutomationObservabilityInfrastructure

Questions you could be asked

  1. Tell me about a project where fleet management was part of your work. What did you do?
  2. Tell me about a project where reliability was part of your work. What did you do?
  3. Tell me about a project where operations management was part of your work. What did you do?
  4. Tell me about a project where automation was part of your work. What did you do?
  5. Tell me about a project where observability was part of your work. What did you do?

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  • List these exact terms on your resume: Fleet Management, Reliability, Operations Management, Automation, and Observability. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
  • Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
  • Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.

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