Senior Director, Network Engineering

Crusoe•San Francisco, CA

7d•$325,000 - $360,000

About The Position

Crusoe is building the network backbone for one of the largest AI compute platforms in the world. As Senior Director of Network Engineering, you will own the architecture, scale, and operation of the network that connects our GPU fleet and powers large-scale AI training and inference. You will lead a 40-person engineering organization —including 8 direct reports, mostly managers — set multi-year technical direction, and partner across compute, storage, security, and data center teams to keep our infrastructure fast, reliable, and ready for the next order of magnitude of growth. This role requires a leader who builds methodically, communicates with transparency, and drives results by deciding what matters most — not just building everything at once.

Requirements

15+ years engineering and operating network services, with 8+ years leading network teams at a cloud provider, hyperscaler, or high-growth infrastructure company
Deep command of software-defined networking, white box switches, routing, switching, fabric architecture, TCP/IP, Ethernet, QoS, and BGP
Proven track record scaling data center and cloud networks for high-throughput, high-availability workloads
Hands-on experience with automation frameworks such as Ansible and Terraform, and a bias toward automating provisioning and operations
A leadership style built on transparency–you communicate how your team is working, what's on track, and what's at risk without being asked
Results-driven and self-motivated, with the ability to drive building cloud networking software while staying technically credible with the engineers you lead
Clear strategic judgment paired with the discipline to build methodically rather than chase every problem at once
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field

Nice To Haves

Experience offloading network services into smart NICs or working with programmable fabrics
Familiarity with Kubernetes networking, overlay networks, and service meshes
Experience building networks for GPU-dense or AI-specific environments
Active collaboration with open-source networking communities

Responsibilities

Setting and driving the multi-year strategy and roadmap for Crusoe's network services across data center and cloud
Building, leading, and growing a team of network software engineers and architects focused on performance, reliability, and automation
Prioritizing ruthlessly across competing demands — determining what to build, what to defer, and communicating the reasoning clearly to engineering leadership and cross-functional partners
Architecting high-scale routing and segmentation using BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, and software-defined networking across a distributed, multi-region footprint
Optimizing east-west and north-south traffic to support AI/ML training, distributed compute, and demanding customer workloads
Owning network uptime and performance end to end, including proactive monitoring, incident response, and root-cause analysis
Partnering with security to implement network segmentation, DDoS mitigation, and compliance with data-sovereignty and privacy requirements