Crusoe

Staff Software Engineer, Systems Engineering Focus

Crusoe
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4 months ago

Base Salary

$210k - $255k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and scale customer-facing platform services, including greenfield 0-to-1 projects and systems handling growing production traffic.
  • Review edge-agent architectures, guide in-flight designs, and provide technical oversight for software running on customer infrastructure.
  • Build and maintain lightweight, highly reliable agents deployed on customer virtual machines.
  • Instrument Linux kernel metrics using eBPF and procfs for monitoring and telemetry pipelines.
  • Own agent packaging and distribution through Helm charts across customer environments.
  • Design and evolve pull-based scraping logic for collecting infrastructure metrics with low operational overhead.
  • Collaborate with Control Plane, Storage, SRE, and Compute teams on reliable agent data and lower-level platform integration.
  • Set team-wide technical patterns, contribute to architecture decisions, mentor senior engineers, and help scope quarterly roadmap work.

Requirements

  • Strong proficiency in Python, Go, and/or Shell scripting.
  • Experience instrumenting low-level Linux system metrics with comfort working at the procfs level.
  • Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals and experience packaging and deploying workloads with Helm charts.
  • Required on-call experience on a customer-facing team.
  • Ability to design for crash safety, low resource usage, graceful degradation, resiliency, high availability, and disaster recovery.
  • Ability to lead cross-domain efforts, own team architecture, coach multiple engineers, and establish engineering frameworks.
  • Ability to communicate concisely and proactively while anticipating blockers.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity packages, including Restricted Stock Units
  • Paid time off, paid holidays, leave programs, and paid parental leave
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
  • Paid life insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage
  • Professional development and tuition reimbursement
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Commuter benefits, cell phone stipend, and daily meals allowance
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
  • Volunteer time off
  • Global travel insurance and emergency assistance
  • Additional location-specific perks and programs

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About Crusoe

1,001-5,000 employees

As the AI factory company, Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. The company provides a reliable, scalable, cost-effective, and energy-first solution for AI infrastructure. By harnessing large-scale energy resources, building AI-optimized data centers, and delivering an AI cloud platform, Crusoe empowers its customers to build the future faster.