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Director of Network Services

Director of Network Services

CompanyCoreWeave
LocationLivingston, NJ, USA, New York, NY, USA, Bellevue, WA, USA, Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Salary$230000 – $275000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s, Master’s
Experience LevelExpert or higher

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience engineering and operating network services.
  • 5+ years in a leadership or senior management role at a cloud provider, hyperscaler, or high-growth tech company.
  • Deep understanding of software defined networking, internet routing, switching, peering, and distributed network design.
  • Proven experience scaling data center and cloud networks for high-throughput workloads.
  • Experience collaborating with open source communities.
  • Strong knowledge of automation frameworks (e.g., Ansible, Terraform).
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive the long-term vision and roadmap for CoreWeave’s networking services.
  • Lead a team of software engineers and architects focused on performance, reliability, and automation.
  • Partner with compute, storage, security, and data center teams to deliver highly available and scalable network services.
  • Optimize east-west and north-south traffic patterns to support AI/ML training, distributed compute, and customer workloads.
  • Oversee BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, and other key technologies enabling high-scale routing and segmentation.
  • Leverage next-generation networking technologies (e.g., smart NICs, software-defined networking, programmable fabrics).
  • Own the performance and uptime of CoreWeave’s network services, including proactive monitoring, incident response, and root cause analysis.
  • Drive automation across service deployment, provisioning, and management.
  • Partner with InfoSec to implement network security policies, segmentation, and DDoS mitigation strategies.
  • Ensure compliance with data sovereignty and privacy regulations across network services.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience offloading services into smart NICs.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes networking, overlay networks, and service meshes.