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# Staff Software Engineer, Systems Engineering Focus at Crusoe

- **Company:** [Crusoe](https://feeny.ai/companies/crusoe)
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA / United States
- **Compensation:** $210k–$255k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-04-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Crusoe/42e9d3e0-0f19-4199-8b92-8d3b7a1efe83/application

**Skills:** Python, Go, Shell scripting, Linux Kernel Metrics, Procfs, Kubernetes, Helm, eBPF, Systems Programming

> Design, build, and scale customer-facing managed services and edge/agent software for Crusoe Cloud. The role involves full-stack development, systems programming, and technical leadership in a high-urgency environment focused on reliability and scalability.

## 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 the Role: We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and scale Crusoe Cloud's customer-facing managed services. The Managed Platform Services team owns and operates multiple customer-facing products, with an active and growing roadmap. This is a full software engineering role — you'll ship customer-facing features, build systems from 0 to 1, and scale existing services alongside a team of strong generalist engineers. What sets you apart is your systems programming expertise, which you'll bring as a technical authority on our Edge & Agents domain: the software that runs directly on customer infrastructure. This agent code is mission-critical — a failure here is a customer production incident. You'll provide deeper technical oversight on existing, inflight, and planned edge systems while contributing broadly across the platform. This is a full-time position.

What You'll Be Working On:

- Customer-Facing Feature Development: Build and scale core platform services end-to-end — from greenfield 0-to-1 projects to scaling systems handling growing production traffic.
- Edge & Agents Technical Oversight: Serve as the team's subject matter expert on edge software. Review existing agent architectures, provide technical guidance on inflight designs, and shape how we build and operate software at the system level.
- Edge Agent Development: Build and maintain lightweight, high-reliability agents deployed on customer VMs. Minimize CPU/memory footprint without sacrificing observability coverage.
- Linux Kernel Metrics & eBPF: Instrument low-level system metrics using eBPF and procfs to power Crusoe's monitoring and telemetry pipeline.
- Packaging & Distribution: Own agent packaging and deployment via Helm charts, ensuring smooth delivery across customer environments.
- Pull-Based Scraping Architecture: Design and evolve the "pull" scraping logic that collects metrics from customer infrastructure with minimal operational overhead.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Control Plane, Storage, and SRE teams to ensure agent data feeds are reliable, well-structured, and operationally sound.
- Cross-Team Bridge: Serve as the technical bridge between the Managed Platform Services team and adjacent infrastructure teams — including SRE and Compute — who work on the cloud hypervisor and lower-level platform layers. Build enough expertise in their domains to collaborate effectively, represent your team's requirements clearly, and influence decisions that affect the edge agent stack.
- Technical Leadership: Set patterns and frameworks adopted across the team. Mentor senior engineers, contribute to architecture decisions, and help scope quarterly roadmap items with engineering and product leadership.

What You'll Bring to the Team:

- Systems Programming Expertise: Strong proficiency in Python, Go, and/or Shell scripting, with comfort working across languages as the problem demands.
- Linux Kernel Metrics: Experience instrumenting low-level system metrics. Comfort working at the procfs level.
- Kubernetes & Helm: Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals and experience packaging and deploying workloads via Helm charts.
- Operational Mindset: On-call experience on a customer-facing team is required. You proactively identify gaps in monitoring, alerting, and tooling — and close them.
- Systems Programming Expertise: Strong proficiency in Python, Go, and/or Shell scripting, with comfort working across languages as the problem demands.
- Reliability-First Engineering: You design for crash safety, low resource footprint, and graceful degradation. You think about what happens when things go wrong before writing a line of code.
- Scalable Design Thinking: You plan how systems evolve under traffic growth. You consider resiliency, HA, and disaster recovery from the start.
- Staff-Level Impact: You lead cross-domain efforts, own team architecture, and coach multiple engineers across and beyond your team. You identify one-way door decisions, proactively drive solutions without being asked, and introduce frameworks that uplevel the group without requiring your direct involvement. You have a healthy bias to action — you bring solutions, not just problems.
- Communication: Concise, proactive, and anticipates blockers. Keeps stakeholders informed without needing to be asked.

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 $210,000 - $255,000 + 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.

## 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. [crusoe.ai/about/company](https://www.crusoe.ai/about/company)

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