Crusoe

Senior Production Engineer, SDN

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13 days ago
Sunnyvale, CA, USASenior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$170k - $205k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build automation and self-healing tools to monitor and maintain SDN infrastructure.
  • Improve routing convergence, traffic engineering, policy enforcement, and fault isolation.
  • Implement and maintain high-performance virtualized networking services such as overlays, service meshes, and programmable data planes.
  • Support user-facing networking services by improving availability, latency, performance, and error-budget adherence.
  • Investigate and resolve networking incidents using telemetry, flow logs, and packet-level analysis.
  • Partner with hardware and kernel teams to optimize network stacks, drivers, and control planes.
  • Contribute to fault-tolerant and scalable SDN backend architecture for AI-focused cloud environments.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 5 years of professional experience in production engineering, systems engineering, or networking engineering.
  • Demonstrated experience automating network provisioning, configuration, and remediation.
  • Hands-on experience with SDN platforms and protocols including Open vSwitch, ONOS, Tungsten Fabric, Calico, Cilium, and EVPN/VXLAN.
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, or C.
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code and deployment tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
  • Deep knowledge of Linux internals, networking subsystems, kernel modules, and packet scheduling.
  • Familiarity with BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, and network virtualization technologies.
  • Strong experience with containerized workloads, Kubernetes, Docker, CNI plugins, and Kubernetes-layer service networking.
  • Experience operating managed networking services at scale, including AWS VPC, Transit Gateway, GCP VPC, and Azure Virtual Network.
  • Excellent incident response, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
  • Candidates should demonstrate networking and CNI experience rather than general Kubernetes cluster management experience.
  • Commitment to the company’s values.

Benefits

  • Restricted Stock Units
  • Health insurance options including HDHP and PPO, plus vision and dental coverage for employees and dependents
  • Employer HSA contributions
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage
  • Teladoc
  • 401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary
  • Generous paid time off and holiday schedule
  • Cell phone reimbursement
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Calm app subscription
  • MetLife Legal
  • Company-paid commuter benefit

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About Crusoe

1,001-5,000 employees

As the AI factory company, Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. The company provides a reliable, scalable, cost-effective, and energy-first solution for AI infrastructure. By harnessing large-scale energy resources, building AI-optimized data centers, and delivering an AI cloud platform, Crusoe empowers its customers to build the future faster.