Crusoe

Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Monitoring Service (Distributed Systems)

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Base Salary

$215k - $260k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the architecture and evolution of large-scale telemetry pipelines covering ingestion, stream processing, time-series and log storage, and query paths
  • Design scalable, durable, fair multi-tenant services that address hot shards, high-cardinality data, noisy neighbors, backpressure, retention, compaction, and graceful degradation
  • Improve pipeline reliability and data freshness while reducing on-call burden through system design
  • Set technical direction for distributed systems work, lead design reviews, and guide major architectural decisions
  • Collaborate with product, compute, networking, and platform teams on observability strategy
  • Represent the team’s technical position in cross-organizational discussions
  • Participate in customer-facing on-call and use incident response to improve system design
  • Coach senior and mid-level engineers through design work, code review, and incident response
  • Build reusable patterns and frameworks that improve team effectiveness

Requirements

  • 8+ years of software development experience with sustained ownership of production distributed systems
  • Deep hands-on experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale, including sharding, replication, consistency, load balancing, and concurrency
  • Experience with large-scale observability data infrastructure such as time-series databases, log aggregation, streaming pipelines, or distributed tracing backends
  • Familiarity with Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Kafka, Vector, or similar technologies
  • Strong programming fundamentals in Go or another modern compiled language, with Go strongly preferred
  • Comfort working with Kubernetes, microservices, and CI/CD environments
  • Experience supporting customer-facing services through on-call rotations
  • Ability to drive technical outcomes across team boundaries and communicate with product, support, and engineering teams
  • Ability to scope ambiguous problems, identify non-functional requirements, and evaluate customer and business tradeoffs
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers through design guidance, code review, and constructive feedback

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity packages, including Restricted Stock Units
  • Paid time off, paid holidays, and leave of absence programs
  • 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) plan with company match up to 4% of salary
  • Volunteer time off
  • Global travel insurance and emergency assistance
  • Daily meals allowance
  • 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.