Crusoe

Senior Production Engineer, Storage

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10 days ago
Bellevue, WA, USA +2 moreSenior
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Base Salary

$170k - $205k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build automation and self-healing tools for distributed block, file, and object storage infrastructure.
  • Drive reliability initiatives involving data replication, encryption, backup and restore, and failover mechanisms.
  • Implement and maintain high-performance NVMe- and SSD-backed volumes for large-scale AI compute clusters.
  • Support user-facing storage services through availability improvements, performance tuning, and error-budget management.
  • Investigate and resolve storage incidents using telemetry, logs, and performance profiling.
  • Partner with hardware and kernel teams to diagnose low-level I/O issues and optimize I/O paths, cache policies, and filesystems.
  • Contribute to fault-tolerant and scalable storage 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 Storage SRE, systems, or storage engineering.
  • Hands-on experience architecting and operating enterprise storage platforms such as Pure Storage or EMC.
  • Deep understanding of object, block, and file storage paradigms.
  • Proficiency in Go, Python, Java, C, or a similar programming language.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code and deployment tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
  • Deep knowledge of Linux internals, including I/O subsystems, memory management, and storage scheduling.
  • Familiarity with NFS, SMB, iSCSI, or NVMe-oF storage protocols.
  • Strong experience with containerized workloads and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes and Docker.
  • Experience operating managed object, file, and block storage services at scale across AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Strong incident response, troubleshooting, and documentation practices.
  • Preferred experience with Ceph, GlusterFS, OpenEBS, Vast, Lightbits, open-source storage projects, the Linux storage stack, or hybrid on-premises and cloud storage models.

Benefits

  • Industry-competitive pay plus bonus and 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, life insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, and 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, and a company-paid commuter benefit of $300 per month.

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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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