About the Role
The API Platform team builds and maintains CoreWeave's central API platform, enabling teams across the organization to expose their services through a unified, secure gateway. They are responsible for the developer experience, security, and scalability of all public-facing APIs at CoreWeave. As a Senior Engineer on the team, you'll focus on creating robust, developer-friendly APIs and tools that make it easy for teams to onboard their services while ensuring performance and reliability. You'll work at the intersection of API design, developer experience, and platform architecture to help scale CoreWeave's growing API ecosystem.
- Design and develop CoreWeave's central API platform that enables teams to expose their services through a unified, secure, and monitored gateway
- Support infrastructure-as-code integrations to enable programmatic resource management, including contributions to our Terraform provider
- Drive architectural decisions around API authentication, rate limiting, caching strategies, and other platform-wide concerns
- Build observability solutions for the API platform, including detailed metrics, logging, and tracing capabilities to help teams monitor their API performance and usage
- Build and maintain comprehensive API governance tools and processes, including OpenAPI specification validation, versioning strategies, and backwards compatibility checks
- Work closely with our security engineering team to implement best practices for API security, performance, and reliability, ensuring our platform meets the highest industry standards.
- Create developer tooling and documentation that help other teams onboard their services to the API platform efficiently
- Mentor other engineers on API design best practices and help establish standards for APIs across the organization
Investing in our people is one of our top priorities, and we value candidates who can bring their diversified experiences to our teams. Here are some qualities we’ve found compatible with our team. We'd love to talk about whether this aligns with your experience and interests and what you’re excited to work on next.
Who You Are
Minimum Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience building and maintaining production-grade APIs
- Strong experience with Go programming language and its ecosystem
- Strong understanding of API gateway patterns, microservices architecture, and distributed systems
- Experience implementing authentication, authorization, and security best practices for APIs
- Familiarity with observability practices including metrics, logging, and distributed tracing
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Excellent communication skills and experience collaborating with cross-functional teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with the Kubernetes Operator pattern and building Kubernetes controllers
- Experience with gRPC and protocol buffer design
- Experience building and maintaining Terraform providers
- Experience with alternative IaC platforms like Pulumi or Crossplane
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc.)
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $185K-$200K. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
