Senior Director, Fleet Reliability Operations

Senior Director, Fleet Reliability Operations

Core Weave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, Core Weave 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, Core Weave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, Core Weave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025.

Lead the continuing evolution of Core Weave’s global GPU server fleet. This is your chance to reimagine how supercomputing infrastructure is managed as we 10X our global scale, applying automation and AI to turn complexity into possibility.

The Fleet Reliability Operations team sits at the heart of Core Weave’s growth. Every day, this team battles the forces of entropy across an ever growing fleet, ensuring our customers have the compute they need to push the boundaries of AI.

As Senior Director of Fleet Operations, you’ll architect for scale, build for resilience, and operationalize for speed, leading the next leap in how we provision and manage servers across our highest tiers of supercomputing clusters. You’ll be technically embedded, automation‑obsessed, and driven by the pursuit of elegant, lean, and reliable systems that redefine what’s possible in cloud infrastructure.

• Lead and grow a high‑performing management team operating globally
• Develop and drive the Fleet Operations roadmap, prioritizing automation, resilience, and scale
• Collaborate cross‑functionally with hardware, platform, network, data center and vendor teams
• Champion operational excellence, high‑signal metrics and blameless incident response
• Drive automation‑first strategy — prioritizing innovation over toil
• Cultivate a team culture of reliability, mentorship and continuous improvement
• Inspire a team of industry‑leading operations engineers through thoughtful and robust hiring, onboarding and performance management practices

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure or platform engineering, development, SRE or Dev Ops
• 5+ years in leadership roles managing mission‑critical global production environments
• Deep technical understanding of data center operations, fleet provisioning, lifecycle management, and observability tooling
• Builder of resilient engineering teams and systems with 24/7 incident and reliability responsibilities
• Fluent in automation workflows, monitoring solutions, and scalable fleet management systems
• Effective communicator and collaboration who can align complex, cross‑functional communication
• Process‑oriented and pragmatic; able to document, simplify and scale without calcifying

• Experience managing global fleets of GPU or HPC dense compute infrastructure
• Technical background in architecture and/or development of infrastructure management platforms and workflows
• Prior roles owning uptime, incident response, or reliability engineering in hyperscale environments

• 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 provides the opportunity to develop innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for take off, the growth opportunities within the organization 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 $212,000 to $311,000. 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).

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs,…