6 months ago
Base Salary
$240k - $310k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the long-term technical strategy and roadmap for Crusoe’s storage engine.
- Architect and implement the V2 storage re-architecture using system programming languages and industry-standard storage protocols.
- Bridge high-performance NVMe hardware with globally distributed, S3-competitive object stores.
- Serve as the final technical authority for critical architecture decisions across the Foundations organization.
- Lead complex design reviews spanning storage, networking, and virtualization.
- Lead focused engineering teams to resolve kernel-level I/O context-switching issues and global tail-latency bottlenecks in distributed clusters.
- Drive and maintain open-source contributions.
- Collaborate with executive leadership and Product to align technical capabilities with business milestones.
- Champion engineering initiatives such as technical talks and technical reading groups.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience building and operating large-scale, complex distributed cloud computing infrastructure products.
- Proven system programming experience with C, C++, Go, and/or Rust.
- Strong troubleshooting, profiling, and performance-tuning skills across the full I/O path.
- Deep theoretical and practical knowledge of distributed state, consistency, durability, and data protection at petabyte scale.
- Mastery of professional software engineering practices, including coding standards, build processes, testing, and the full software development lifecycle.
- Experience with storage protocols such as NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe/TCP.
- A track record of open-source contributions, with examples including Ceph, GlusterFS, Lustre, Spectrum Scale, and OpenEBS.
- Ability to lead architecture decisions, design reviews, and cross-organization initiatives.
- Bonus: expertise with AWS, GCP, Azure, or OCI.
- Bonus: familiarity with PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, and MLOps.
- Bonus: experience with DAOS or SPDK, RDMA, SmartNICs, RoCEv2, Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, or Kafka.
- Bonus: knowledge of CAP Theorem, Paxos/RAFT, consistent hashing, and sharding strategies.
- Bonus: advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off and paid holidays
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Employer HSA contributions
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage
- Professional development and tuition reimbursement
- Mental health and wellness support
- Commuter benefits for parking and transit
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
- Volunteer time off
Tech Stack
About Crusoe
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.