Senior Specialist Field Engineer - Storage

<div class="content-intro"><div> <div> <div class="gmail_quote"> <div> <div><span id="m_1770241969069985273m_-2746164444908759431gmail-docs-internal-guid-131e4fb0-7fff-b4e9-ff50-e8cf32449b1b">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 <a href="http://www.coreweave.com/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.coreweave.com&source=gmail&ust=1762613132717000&usg=AOvVaw3D-UOhNaqEvF5BEWxjYyAU">www.coreweave.com</a>.</span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The <strong>Customer Experience (CX) Organization</strong> at CoreWeave is dedicated to ensuring every client running AI workloads at scale has a seamless, reliable, and high-performance experience. This team supports the infrastructure that powers the AI revolution—working across data centers, hardware systems, and customer workloads to maintain the integrity of our cloud platform. The CX organization aligns closely with the internal and customer engineering teams, offering valuable insights from the field and having the chance to contribute to the CoreWeave product roadmap and development. </span></p> <h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;">About the role</span></h1> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Training and inference at CoreWeave's scale depend on storage keeping thousands of GPUs fed. As a Senior Specialist Field Engineer for Storage, you'll help customers get the most from shared file storage, object storage, local NVMe, and dedicated storage built for a single customer. You'll work closely with the Storage product and engineering teams, and what you learn in the field will help shape what they build.</span></p> <h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In this role, you will:</span></h1> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Design storage architecture for complex customers (shared filesystems, object storage, caching, multi-tenant isolation, cross-region data), including how it fails and what each failure affects.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Troubleshoot problems from the application's I/O pattern down through the NFS client, the CSI driver, the storage network, and the storage cluster itself.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Find where the product falls short for real workloads and work the gap through with engineering, as an extended member of the Storage team.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lead customer technical overviews, proofs of concept, and customer workshops, with occasional travel.</span></li> </ul> <h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Who You Are:</span></h1> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">B.S. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">7+ years building or operating large-scale storage systems, as a storage, systems, or software engineer, or in a deeply technical storage-focused field role.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Solid working knowledge of NFS (v3 and v4, mount options such as nconnect, failure modes) and S3-compatible object storage.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hands-on experience with a distributed or parallel filesystem such as VAST, WEKA, Lustre, or Spectrum Scale.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Deep understanding of Kubernetes storage: CSI drivers, PVs, PVCs, and StorageClasses, and how to troubleshoot them.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Very comfortable benchmarking with tools like fio and reading the results, and telling a metadata-bound workload from a bandwidth-bound one.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You explain technical problems clearly to engineers and executives, and you build trust with customers.</span></li> </ul> <h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Preferred</span></h1> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Debugging NFS over TCP at scale, including storage problems that turn out to be network problems (retransmits, stale routes, overlay versus underlay).</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience with storage for AI workloads: streaming training data, checkpointing at scale, and read caching.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Diagnosing failures that only show up at scale, such as lock exhaustion under heavy concurrency or rename races corrupting checkpoints.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size