Crusoe

Senior Backend Software Engineer - Core Backend, Cloud Customer Experience

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2 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or Sunnyvale, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$170k - $205k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable services for Crusoe Cloud’s user-facing experiences.
  • Own and evolve the API gateway, including routing, authentication and authorization, rate limiting, versioning, and tenant isolation.
  • Build notification and eventing systems with reliable delivery and user preference controls.
  • Develop quota and entitlement workflows that provide fast, correct enforcement under contention.
  • Automate and harden customer onboarding, provisioning, and identity flows to reduce time-to-first-GPU.
  • Extend resource management services to model, expose, and reconcile new infrastructure offerings.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions, production reliability, hiring practices, mentoring, and engineering culture.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of software development experience.
  • Programming experience with modern compiled languages such as Go, Rust, Java, or C++, with Go used primarily by the services.
  • Experience designing versioned public APIs using gRPC/protobuf or REST and related SDK, CLI, or Terraform provider surfaces.
  • Experience with fault-tolerant distributed systems, managed cloud services, API gateway concerns, and service design.
  • Strong PostgreSQL and relational database skills, including schema design, transactions, isolation levels, locking, and online migrations.
  • Practical experience with message queues or streaming systems such as Kafka, NATS, or Pub/Sub, including delivery, retries, idempotency, and dead-letter patterns.
  • Experience building long-running workflows, reconciliation loops, state machines, control loops, or workflow engines such as Temporal.
  • Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD systems.
  • Experience defining SLOs, instrumenting services with metrics, logs, and traces, debugging production issues, and participating in on-call rotations.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and improving hiring and onboarding processes.
  • Preferred qualifications include experience with public cloud consoles or developer platforms, AI/ML workload requirements, financial or billing systems, high-growth startups or neocloud providers, and open-source cloud-native or developer-experience projects.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and restricted stock units.
  • Paid time off, paid holidays, paid parental leave, and volunteer time off.
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Employer HSA contributions and paid life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.
  • Professional development, tuition reimbursement, and mental health and wellness support.
  • Commuter benefits, parking and transit support, and a cell phone stipend.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary.
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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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