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, maintain, and operate scalable backend services powering Crusoe Cloud user experiences.
  • Own API gateway capabilities including routing, authentication and authorization, rate limiting, versioning, tracing, and tenant isolation.
  • Build and evolve notification and eventing systems with reliable delivery, deduplication, fan-out, and user preference controls.
  • Develop quota and entitlement workflows for self-service requests, transparent limits, and correct enforcement under contention.
  • Harden and automate customer onboarding, provisioning, identity, and organization flows to reduce time-to-first-GPU.
  • Extend resource management models, lifecycle state machines, reconciliation loops, and infrastructure provisioning workflows.
  • Contribute to architectural decisions, reliability practices, hiring, mentorship, and an inclusive engineering culture.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of software development experience, including programming with modern compiled languages such as Go, Rust, Java, or C++.
  • Experience designing versioned public APIs using gRPC/protobuf or REST and related SDK, CLI, or Terraform provider surfaces.
  • Knowledge of API gateway and edge concerns including routing, authorization, rate limiting, quota checks, validation, and graceful degradation.
  • Experience designing and scaling fault-tolerant distributed systems and managed cloud services.
  • 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 and reliable event-processing patterns.
  • Experience building long-running, resumable workflows, state machines, reconciliation loops, or workflow engines such as Temporal.
  • Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD systems.
  • Experience with observability, SLOs, metrics, logs, traces, production debugging, and on-call operations.
  • Ability to collaborate cross-functionally, mentor engineers, improve hiring and onboarding, and communicate complex technical ideas.
  • Preferred experience includes public cloud consoles or developer platforms, AI/ML workload infrastructure, financial or billing systems, high-growth startups, neocloud providers, or relevant open-source projects.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation of $170,000-$205,000 plus bonus, with restricted stock units included in all offers.
  • 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.
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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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