Crusoe's mission is to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. We’re crafting the engine that powers a world where people can create ambitiously with AI — without sacrificing scale, speed, or sustainability.
Be a part of the AI revolution with sustainable technology at Crusoe. Here, you'll drive meaningful innovation, make a tangible impact, and join a team that’s setting the pace for responsible, transformative cloud infrastructure.
About This Role:
The Cloud Storage team at Crusoe seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead the development and execution of our storage strategy. This role will be instrumental in driving innovation and performance improvements within our cloud storage infrastructure. You will work extensively with cloud storage primitives, utilizing advanced storage engineering concepts to build and operate high-performance, scalable, and reliable storage solutions.
What You’ll Be Working On:
Lead Engineering Efforts: Lead engineering efforts on cloud storage features by collaborating with product and engineering to define and execute features on the roadmap.
Software Development: Write and review code, generate and review design documentation. Participate in qualifications and rollouts of software across the stack journeying from bare metal to user-facing APIs.
Technical Leadership: Guide the engineering team through architecture decisions, design processes, design reviews, code reviews, and implementation tasks.
Team Mentorship: Mentor and grow engineers on your team, fostering an environment of teamwork and continuous learning.
Cross-Team Collaboration: Champion and lead initiatives across the engineering organization such as tech talks, open source development, and book clubs.
Performance Optimization: Benchmark, analyze, and improve scale, performance, and resiliency issues.
What You’ll Bring to the Team:
Cloud Storage Expertise: Hands-on experience building and operating large scale, complex distributed cloud computing infrastructure products. Preferably, experience building redundant and fault tolerant storage solutions with backups, replication, encryption, and data protection mechanisms.
Software Engineering Fundamentals: Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
Technical Proficiency: Strong experience with at least one application programming language like Java or Go. Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tooling with any of Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and/or Terraform. Knowledge of Linux Systems Internals and computer architecture.
Communication & Collaboration: Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Safety and Compliance: Must be able to pass a background check.
Bonus Points:
Storage Technologies: Hands-on experience with storage technologies such as NVMe, SSDs, and distributed storage systems.
Storage Protocols: In-depth understanding in at least one of block storage, object storage, and/or file storage. Familiarity with storage protocols like NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF.
Open Source Contributions: Demonstrated track record of contributions to the open source community (e.g., Ceph, GlusterFS, OpenEBS).
System Programming: Proven experience in system programming with C, C++, and/or Rust.
Networking: An understanding of physical and software-defined networking concepts.
Education: Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Benefits:
Industry competitive pay
Restricted Stock Units in a fast growing, well-funded technology company
Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents
Employer contributions to HSA accounts
Paid Parental Leave
Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
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401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary
Generous paid time off and holiday schedule
Cell phone reimbursement
Tuition reimbursement
Subscription to the Calm app
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Company paid commuter benefit; $300 per month
Compensation Range:
Compensation will be paid in the range of $155-250k a year + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicants knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.
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What We Do
Crusoe is on a mission to eliminate routine flaring of natural gas and reduce the cost of cloud computing. We are passionate about our goals to help the oil industry operate more efficiently, achieve better relationships with communities and regulators, and improve environmental performance. Crusoe repurposes otherwise wasted energy to fuel the growing demand for computational power in the expanding digital economy.
Why Work With Us
Crusoe has five core values with each value grounded in a set of actionable practices. The combination of philosophical values and actionable practices creates a decision-making framework for each employee to achieve success at Crusoe.
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