--- title: 'Staff Network Production Engineer, Operations at Crusoe' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-network-production-engineer-operations-crusoe-san-francisco-cn31786dwb19' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-06' --- # Staff Network Production Engineer, Operations at Crusoe - **Company:** [Crusoe](https://feeny.ai/companies/crusoe) - **Location:** San Francisco, CA / United States - **Compensation:** $195k–$235k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-08-13 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Crusoe/ef99771f-c1a6-44eb-94f3-fae7652d7a47/application **Skills:** BGP, EVPN-VXLAN, IS-IS, OSPF, MPLS, QoS, TCP/IP, Arista EOS, Juniper Junos, Leaf-spine CLOS architectures, RDMA/RoCE, PFC, ECN, DCQCN, Streaming telemetry, SNMP, NetFlow, sFlow, Grafana, Prometheus > Crusoe seeks a Staff Network Engineer to own production reliability for its global network infrastructure, including edge, backbone, and GPU cluster interconnects. The role involves incident response, root cause analysis, observability improvements, and automation to support hyperscale AI workloads. ## Job description Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster. We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI. We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services. If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe. About This Role: Crusoe Cloud is seeking a Staff Network Production Operations Engineer to help own production reliability across our global network infrastructure, including edge, backbone, data center fabric, and GPU cluster interconnects. This is a hands-on production ownership role focused on incident response, root cause analysis, and operational excellence initiatives that keep our hyperscale AI infrastructure running at scale. Your work will directly affect the availability of AI workloads running across thousands of GPUs worldwide. The ideal candidate is a seasoned network engineer with deep operational experience in large-scale environments who thrives in high-pressure situations and takes pride in keeping systems healthy. You'll contribute to defining SLIs and SLOs, improving observability tooling, building automation to reduce toil, and mentoring peers — all while serving as a key escalation point during high-severity network events. What You'll Be Working On: - Production Reliability: Help own uptime across Crusoe's global edge, backbone, data center, and GPU cluster network, directly supporting AI workloads at scale. - Operational Automation: Build and maintain Python-based tooling to reduce toil, automate common remediation workflows, and accelerate mean time to resolution across the operations org. - Automate Incident Response: Develop scripts and tooling that speed up detection, triage, and mitigation during high-severity network events, and contribute directly to the response itself, including stakeholder communication and postmortem documentation. - Automate Root Cause Analysis: Build tooling to surface systemic issues faster during RCAs, and drive remediation plans tracked through to closure. - Observability Automation: Write automation on top of Crusoe's monitoring stack (streaming telemetry, SNMP, NetFlow, Kentik, Grafana, Prometheus, ThousandEyes) to reduce manual triage and surface actionable signal faster. - Operational Standards: Author and maintain runbooks, escalation playbooks, and SOPs, with an eye toward what can be scripted or automated rather than performed manually. - SLI/SLO Contribution: Partner with Architecture and SRE teams to define and track network reliability metrics, and build the automated dashboards and alerting that back them. - Mentorship: Provide technical guidance to Senior engineers, particularly around automation practices and reducing operational toil, and contribute to a culture of operational excellence. What You'll Bring to the Team: - 8+ years of production network engineering experience with a focus on operations, incident response, and reliability in large-scale or internet-scale environments. - Strong Python and scripting proficiency: comfortable writing diagnostic tooling, auto-remediation scripts, and automation pipelines from scratch, not just modifying existing scripts. - Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools including streaming telemetry, SNMP, NetFlow/sFlow, Grafana, Prometheus, and ThousandEyes, and the ability to script against their APIs. - Experience operating RDMA/RoCE lossless fabrics for GPU or HPC workloads, including familiarity with PFC, ECN, and DCQCN tuning. - Expert hands-on knowledge of BGP, EVPN-VXLAN, IS-IS, OSPF, MPLS, QoS, and TCP/IP in production data center environments. - Proficiency with Arista (EOS) and Juniper (Junos) platforms in leaf-spine CLOS architectures across multi-vendor environments. - Comfort operating large device fleets across multi-region environments with on-call responsibility, including experience as an escalation point during critical events. - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Bonus Points: - Experience with NVIDIA/Mellanox networking platforms in GPU cluster environments. - Familiarity with Kentik or Arbor for traffic analysis and DDoS visibility. - Experience defining or contributing to SLIs and SLOs in partnership with SRE or product teams. - Exposure to operating 10K+ device fleets across hyperscale or cloud environments. - Background contributing to post-incident learning programs or operational excellence initiatives org-wide. Benefits: - Competitive compensation and equity packages - Restricted Stock Units - Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs - Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance - Employer contributions to HSA account - Paid parental leave - Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability - Professional development & tuition reimbursement - Mental health & wellness support - Commuter benefits (parking & transit) - Cell phone stipend - 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary - Volunteer time off - Global travel insurance & emergency assistance - Daily meals allowance - Additional perks & programs specific to location ## Compensation Range Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $215,000 - $260,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant's 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. ## About Crusoe ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Crusoe is an energy-first AI infrastructure company that designs, builds, and operates hyperscale data centers and a cloud platform purpose-built for artificial intelligence workloads. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series E) - **Headquarters**: Denver, Colorado, USA - **Founded**: 2018 - **Founders**: Chase Lochmiller and Cully Cavness ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: AI Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Data Centers, Clean Energy - Target customers: Enterprise AI companies, AI-native startups, research institutions, government agencies (B2B) - **Mission**: "Accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence." ## Products & Services - **Crusoe Cloud**: An AI-optimized cloud platform purpose-built for AI workloads, featuring high-performance NVIDIA and AMD compute, accelerated storage, and optimized RDMA networking. Claims to deploy models up to 20x faster and cut costs by up to 81%. - **Crusoe Managed Inference**: A managed AI inference service built with Crusoe's proprietary MemoryAlloy technology, offering best-in-class speed, throughput, and reliability. Features the Crusoe Intelligence Foundry for model selection and API key management. - **AI Data Center Infrastructure**: Vertically integrated design, build, and operation of hyperscale AI factories (e.g., the 1.2 GW Stargate campus in Abilene, TX). Modular, scalable construction for power-hungry AI workloads. - **Crusoe Managed Kubernetes & Slurm**: Managed orchestration services that eliminate operational overhead for customers. - **Crusoe AutoClusters**: Fault-tolerant, managed cluster services for large-scale AI training. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company). - **Key Metric**: Raised over $1.8B+ in total funding (Series E in 2024 was $1B+; Series D in 2024 was $600M; Series C in 2021 was $350M). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: NVIDIA, NYDIG, GE Vernova, Redwood Materials, Tallgrass, AMD. The company has also partnered with leading energy and technology firms to power its data centers. - **Growth Signals**: Divested bitcoin mining business to NYDIG in 2023 to focus exclusively on AI infrastructure; broke ground on the 1.2 GW Stargate campus in Abilene, TX; expanded into Europe with a geothermal/hydro-powered deployment in Iceland; announced 1.8 GW Wyoming data center with Tallgrass; acquired GPU memory optimization startup Atero and established a Tel Aviv office. ## Competitive Advantages - **Energy-First Approach**: The company’s core differentiator is its vertical integration starting from energy sourcing. It uses "environmentally aligned power sources" (wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal, natural gas with carbon capture) to power its AI factories, including pioneering technology to convert wasted natural gas into energy. - **Vertical Integration**: Controls the entire stack—from finding innovative energy sources to building and managing hyperscale data centers and operating the cloud platform. - **NVIDIA Partnership**: Close partnership with NVIDIA, providing access to the latest and highest-performance GPU hardware for its cloud and infrastructure. - **Proven Performance**: Claims 99.98% uptime, 100% customer satisfaction score, and significant cost/performance advantages (up to 81% cost reduction). ## Strategic Focus - **Massive Infrastructure Expansion**: Aggressively scaling its data center footprint, with major projects in Abilene, Texas (Stargate) and Wyoming (Tallgrass), and expansion into Europe. - **Deepening AI Cloud**: Continuing to build out its Crusoe Cloud platform with managed services (Kubernetes, Slurm, AutoClusters) to make it easier for AI companies to use their infrastructure. - **Responsible AI**: Emphasizing sustainability and responsible AI governance, as evidenced by achieving ISO 42001 certification and publishing an ESG report. - **Acquisition-led Growth**: Acquired Atero (GPU memory optimization) to enhance its core technology stack. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-Driven**: The company is united by a tangible mission: "Accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence." Employees report high levels of engagement (92% proud to work there per internal survey). - **Massive Growth Trajectory**: Crusoe is at the center of the AI infrastructure boom, building some of the world's most powerful AI factories. For job seekers, this means exposure to cutting-edge technology and the opportunity to scale a company from a startup to an industry leader. - **Culture**: The company values "moving fast and making things," continuous learning, and collective genius. It describes itself as an "AI factory company" that values velocity and impact. - **Work Policy**: Hybrid/Office presence required in most roles. Office locations include: Denver (HQ), San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Bellevue, Tulsa, Dublin (Ireland), and Tel Aviv (Israel). - **Benefits**: Competitive compensation & equity, comprehensive health & wellness, mental health resources, retirement plans, paid time off, leave of absence programs, learning & development, volunteer time off, daily meals allowance, and other location-specific perks. - **Engineering Culture**: Strong emphasis on technical excellence, working with large-scale systems, and pioneering new approaches to energy and infrastructure. The company values candidates' "AI fluency" in its hiring process. ## Sources 1. [crusoe.ai](https://www.crusoe.ai/) 2. [crusoe.ai/careers](https://www.crusoe.ai/about/careers) 3. [crusoe.ai/about/culture](https://www.crusoe.ai/about/careers/culture) 4. 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