Crusoe

Senior Production Engineer, SDN

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2 months 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

Crusoe builds and operates GPU-powered data centers and an AI cloud platform for enterprises running large-scale AI training and inference. It vertically integrates energy supply with compute, using stranded and renewable power to reduce emissions and costs, and sells capacity via cloud services and managed infrastructure. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Denver, the company is privately held.

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