Staff Software Engineer, Storage

Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.

We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.

We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.

If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.

About the Role:

The Cloud Storage team at Crusoe seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead the development and execution of our storage strategy. This role will be instrumental in driving innovation and performance improvements within our cloud storage infrastructure. You will work extensively with cloud storage primitives, utilizing advanced storage engineering concepts to build and operate high-performance, scalable, and reliable storage solutions.

What You'll Be Working On:

• Lead engineering efforts on cloud storage features by collaborating with product and engineering to define and execute features on the roadmap.
• Write and review code, generate and review design documentation. Participate in qualifications and rollouts of software across the stack journeying from bare metal to user-facing APIs.
• Guide the engineering team through architecture decisions, design processes, design reviews, code reviews, and implementation tasks.
• Mentor and grow engineers on your team, fostering an environment of teamwork and continuous learning.
• Champion and lead initiatives across the engineering organization such as tech talks, open source development, and book clubs.
• Benchmark, analyze, and improve scale, performance, and resiliency issues.

What You'll Bring to the Team:

• Cloud Storage Expertise: Hands-on experience building and operating large scale, complex distributed cloud computing infrastructure products. Preferably, experience building redundant and fault tolerant storage solutions with backups, replication, encryption, and data protection mechanisms.
• Software Engineering Fundamentals: Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Technical Proficiency: Strong experience with at least one application programming language like Java or Go. Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tooling with any of Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and/or Terraform. Knowledge of Linux Systems Internals and computer architecture.
• Communication & Collaboration: Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Safety and Compliance: Must be able to pass a background check.

Bonus Points

• Storage Technologies: Hands-on experience with storage technologies such as NVMe, SSDs, and distributed storage systems.
• Storage Protocols: In-depth understanding in at least one of block storage, object storage, and/or file storage. Familiarity with storage protocols like NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF.
• Open Source Contributions: Demonstrated track record of contributions to the open source community (e.g., Ceph, GlusterFS, OpenEBS).
• System Programming: Proven experience in system programming with C, C++, and/or Rust.
• Networking: An understanding of physical and software-defined networking concepts.
• Education: Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Benefits:

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

Compensation Range

Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $195,000-$245,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant's knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.