Senior Software Engineer, Sandboxes & Virtualization

Location: Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA / San Francisco, CA

Department: Technology

What You’ll Do:

The Runtime & GPU Systems team builds and operates secure, high-performance environments for multi-tenant Kubernetes platforms at scale. Our team sits at the intersection of container runtimes, lightweight virtualization, GPU infrastructure, and Linux systems engineering. We partner closely with security, platform, and GPU infrastructure teams to deliver robust, isolated, and efficient execution environments for AI-driven workloads.

About the role:

As a GPU & Runtime Systems Engineer, you will design, build, and evolve secure sandboxed runtime environments for Kubernetes workloads, focusing on runtime isolation, performance, and security. You will integrate container runtimes, lightweight VMs, and virtualization technologies to support GPU-accelerated workloads in multi-tenant environments. Day-to-day, you’ll develop GPU-aware sandboxing and scheduling strategies, optimize containerization and I/O performance for latency-sensitive workloads, and influence architectural decisions across Linux internals, container runtimes, virtualization layers, and GPU drivers.

Some of what you’ll work on:

• Design and implement secure execution environments for containerized and virtualized workloads.
• Build GPU-aware scheduling, isolation, and resource management strategies for multi-tenant workloads.
• Optimize container, VM, and I/O performance across GPU-accelerated workloads.
• Conduct profiling, benchmarking, and performance tuning for runtime, virtualization, and GPU stacks.
• Contribute to architectural decisions across Linux internals, container runtimes, virtualization layers, and GPU drivers.
• Collaborate with security, platform, and infrastructure teams to define and implement runtime isolation and performance standards.

Who You Are:

• 3+ years of experience in systems, platform, infrastructure, or production engineering at scale.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and cloud-native architectures, including controllers, operators, or scheduling extensions.
• Experience designing, implementing, or operating secure execution environments (container runtimes, sandboxed workloads, or virtualized systems).
• Practical experience with lightweight virtualization and sandboxing technologies (e.g., Kata Containers, gVisor, KubeVirt, QEMU).
• Experience supporting GPU-accelerated workloads in multi-tenant environments, including GPU scheduling, isolation, device passthrough, mediated devices, or virtualization.
• Proficient in systems-oriented programming (Go, C/C++, Rust, Bash) with strong Linux internals knowledge.
• Skilled at diagnosing and resolving complex performance, reliability, or isolation issues across containers, VMs, and infrastructure.
• Experienced in profiling, benchmarking, and tuning performance across runtime, virtualization, and GPU stacks.

Preferred:

• Experience building systems for safely executing untrusted or sensitive workloads in shared environments.
• Familiarity with GPU drivers and low-level virtualization or I/O optimization techniques.
• Experience defining threat models and implementing runtime security policies in multi-tenant systems.

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 building high-performance systems that operate reliably under extreme scale and demand.
• You’re curious about the intersection of security, virtualization, Kubernetes, and GPU infrastructure.
• You’re an expert in reasoning about trade-offs between isolation, performance, and operability.

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 $139,000 to $242,000. 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).