Crusoe

Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Monitoring Service (Distributed Systems)

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3 months ago

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

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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