CoreWeave Salary

💰 $157K–$207K salary range

Median: $184K  ·  Based on 251 public CoreWeave job postings  ·  Updated June 19, 2026

This CoreWeave salary benchmark is built from public job postings — no private placement data. Figures reflect base salary only (equity is separate) and are refreshed as new postings are collected.

📊 Salary breakdown

Highest-paying open roles at CoreWeave

• Vice President, Americas Sales — $310K–$345K · Global Field Organization
• VP of Product, Research and Training Infrastructure — $233K–$341K · Technology
• Principal Engineer - Perf and Benchmarking — $206K–$333K · Technology
• Principal Engineer, Cluster Orchestration — $206K–$303K · Technology
• Principal Engineer - Observability — $206K–$303K · Technology
• Director of Engineering, Security Products — $227K–$303K · Technology
• Principal Engineer - Managed Databases — $227K–$303K · Technology
• Principal Engineer, Security Products — Cryptography and Key Lifecycle Management — $206K–$303K · Technology
• Product Strategy Principal — $206K–$303K · Technology
• Principal Engineer, Storage — $206K–$303K · Technology

CoreWeave salary by department

• technology: $204K median · $341K top base — VP of Product, Research and Training Infrastructure (view JD) (102 roles)
• information technology: $204K median · $275K top base — Staff Systems Engineer (Architect) (view JD) (19 roles)
• operations: $197K median · $264K top base — Principal, Land Acquisition (view JD) (6 roles)
• global field organization - t&i: $193K median · $275K top base — Senior Specialist Field Engineer - Compute Infrastructure (view JD) (5 roles)
• marketing: $180K median · $264K top base — Director of Product Marketing, Agentic AI (view JD) (10 roles)
• global field organization: $178K median · $345K top base — Vice President, Americas Sales (view JD) (12 roles)
• strategic financing: $177K median · $237K top base — Director, Energy Market Development (view JD) (7 roles)
• people: $174K median · $242K top base — Director, Global People Operations (view JD) (5 roles)

CoreWeave salary by location

• New York: $201K median · $303K top base — Principal Engineer - Observability (view JD) (40 roles)
• Dallas: $158K median · $220K top base — Director, Infrastructure Accounting (view JD) (15 roles)
• San Francisco: $180K median · $242K top base — Senior Developer Relations Engineer - Marimo (view JD) (5 roles)
• Remote: $232K median · $303K top base — Principal Engineer, Security Products — Cryptography and Key Lifecycle Management (view JD) (4 roles)

Remote work at CoreWeave

3% of CoreWeave's disclosed-pay roles are remote-friendly. Remote roles run a $232K median vs $121K onsite.

What CoreWeave looks for

Most-required skills across these postings: Spring (159) · Kubernetes (74) · Python (68) · Go (57) · CI/CD (26) · AWS (14) · GCP (14) · Azure (13) · Rust (10) · Terraform (9).

Benefits & perks at CoreWeave

Commonly listed: dental (206) · vision (206) · hsa-fsa (206) · 401k (206) · life-ins (206) · pto (206) · parental (206) · food (206).

About CoreWeave

CoreWeave is Public stage · 1,001–5,000 employees · founded 2017 · HQ Livingston, New Jersey. This context shapes pay: later-stage, well-funded companies tend to anchor base salary higher.

Experience & background at CoreWeave

Roles typically ask for around 7 years of experience (up to 15+ for the most senior). Most postings don't state a degree requirement; of the 66 that do, Bachelor's and Master's and PhD and Associate's are most common.

Posted pay vs. total compensation

The figures on this page are the midpoint of each posting's advertised salary range (which, for commission roles, includes on-target earnings). Equity is a separate — and often large — component of total compensation, especially at high-growth and AI-native companies; 82% of these postings reference equity (espp, options). Equity is not included in the medians above.

CoreWeave total compensation signals

Beyond the posted-range midpoint, postings indicate: 100% of roles list a bonus; common structures: salaried. Bonus, commission, and equity vary by role and are not included in the base medians above.

CoreWeave hiring activity

CoreWeave has 251 open roles right now, and this benchmark draws on 251 public job postings with disclosed pay. 78 of these roles were first seen in the last 30 days (200 in the last 90). Mostly full-time, with 7 contract roles in the mix.

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Common questions

What does CoreWeave pay?
The median pay is $184K, with a typical range of $157K–$207K, based on 251 public job postings (2025–2026). Base only — equity is separate.

What is the highest-paying job at CoreWeave?
One of the highest-paying open roles is Vice President, Americas Sales, at $310K–$345K base.

Which team pays the most at CoreWeave?
The technology team, at a $204K median.

Where does this data come from?
Public job postings on company career pages and public job boards — no private placement or client data.

Methodology

Posted-range midpoints (USD) aggregated from 251 public CoreWeave job postings (2025–2026). Range = 25th–75th percentile; median = 50th percentile. Roles, departments, skills, and experience are parsed from the postings. Base salary only — equity excluded. Last refreshed June 19, 2026.

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