# Principal Engineer, Distributed Systems at CoreWeave

- Company: CoreWeave
- What the company does: CoreWeave is the force multiplier that empowers pioneers with momentum, magnitude, and mastery—enabling them to innovate with confidence. Explore the #1 AI Cloud.
- Company website: https://www.coreweave.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $227K to $303K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-29
- Apply: https://coreweave.com/careers/job?4712126006&board=coreweave&gh_jid=4712126006
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/coreweave-principal-engineer-distributed-systems/

## About the role

We are looking for a Principal Engineer to provide technical leadership across Security Products. This is a senior individual-contributor role for an engineer who can define architecture, guide execution across multiple teams, and solve complex distributed-systems problems in security-critical infrastructure.

## What they're looking for

- 12+ years of experience designing and building production software, including substantial experience with distributed systems and platform infrastructure
- A track record of serving as a principal, staff-plus, distinguished, or equivalent technical leader across multiple teams or a broad technical domain
- Deep expertise in distributed-systems design, including scalability, availability, latency, consistency, concurrency, partition tolerance, caching, replication, and failure recovery
- Experience designing and operating security-sensitive or reliability-critical services in production
- Strong software engineering experience with one or more systems languages or backend ecosystems, such as Go, Java, Rust, C++, Python, or equivalent
- Demonstrated ability to move from ambiguous requirements to clear architecture, sequenced execution plans, and durable engineering outcomes

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