Senior Director of Compute Services

As Senior Director of Compute Services, you will be responsible for the infrastructure that supports internal and external customer platforms. Your services will deliver compute capacity to the most innovative and demanding AI labs in the world. You will work closely with thought leaders to define the future of AI computing infrastructure covering bare metal deployment, Kubernetes, container registry, and virtualization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the engineering roadmap for CoreWeave compute products.
• Lead and grow high-performing engineering teams, including managers and senior ICs, responsible for building and operating security-critical services.
• Own the availability, reliability, and performance of security product services in production, including SLIs/SLOs, incident management, and on-call practices.
• Partner closely with Product Management to translate customer requirements into clear technical designs and delivery plans.
• Oversee the architecture and implementation of secure, scalable, and auditable systems that power customer and internal workloads.
• Collaborate with customer-facing teams (Sales, Solutions, Customer Experience) to support complex enterprise deployments and unblock high-impact opportunities.
• Establish and continuously improve engineering processes, quality bars, and operational best practices for security products in a rapidly growing environment.

Qualifications:

• Experience building and mentoring diverse, inclusive, and high-performing engineering teams in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with Product Management and Security/Compliance teams to prioritize trade-offs and ship customer-facing platform capabilities.
• Strong understanding of enterprise security concepts such as authentication, authorization, least privilege, encryption at rest and in transit, and audit logging.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems with high availability, strong correctness requirements, and clear operational ownership.
• Proven track record of delivering at scale compute products at a cloud provider, security company, or large-scale SaaS, preferably in an AI or Machine Learning environment.
• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including directly managing other managers and scaling multi-team organizations.
• 10+ years of experience in software or infrastructure engineering building and operating production services.
• You’ve worked at a cloud provider or hyperscaler and understand the scale and complexity.
• You want to get into the technical details and solve problems by working directly with engineers.
• You want to work directly with the customers of your services.

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:

• You are inspired to deliver an amazing operational experience for your customers.
• You are passionate about hardware innovation, especially in the modern GPU space.
• You feel passionate about compute technologies like Kubernetes.