Senior Manager, Infrastructure Platform Engineering

Crusoe•Sunnyvale, CA

1d•$245,000 - $295,000

About The Position

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Infrastructure Platform Engineering to lead a team building core systems that turn large-scale compute infrastructure into reliable, secure, and efficiently allocatable capacity. The team owns foundational services spanning resource pooling and allocation, capacity and utilization intelligence, fleet and system lifecycle management, and platform security and trust. This is a hands-on management role for a leader who has come up through infrastructure and systems software engineering, understands the realities of operating compute at scale across cloud and on-premise environments, and is energized by building the control and platform systems that other engineering teams depend on. You'll lead a growing team of infrastructure software engineers, set technical direction across the platform, and partner closely with adjacent infrastructure, production engineering, and security teams to keep the substrate reliable, well-utilized, and easy to build on. While this is an infrastructure-focused role rather than a traditional product role, the systems this team builds are essential to the experience our customers have on the platform. Reliable capacity, healthy systems, and a trustworthy substrate are what make a seamless, dependable customer experience possible — so the team's work directly underpins the business, even as its immediate users are the internal engineering teams building and operating workloads on top of it.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in infrastructure or systems software development, with at least 3+ years in an engineering leadership role
Deep expertise in large-scale infrastructure platforms — building services that pool, allocate, and reconcile compute resources at scale
Strong background with Kubernetes and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure) — orchestration, automation, and operating distributed systems in production
Experience with distributed state management and control systems — modeling resource and system lifecycle, reconciling desired vs. actual state, and handling failure gracefully across a large fleet
Experience with efficiency, capacity, or performance engineering — characterizing system behavior, identifying bottlenecks, and driving measurable improvements in utilization or availability
A player-coach approach to management: hands-on enough to make technical calls, structured enough to grow a team and ship through them
Track record of hiring strong infrastructure engineers and helping them grow into more senior roles
Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where the path isn't fully paved — willing to drive ambiguity to clarity

Nice To Haves

Experience operating Kubernetes on bare-metal infrastructure as well as on managed cloud services (GKE, EKS, AKS)
Familiarity with the operational challenges of GPU clusters, AI training, and inference workloads
Working knowledge of platform security and trust concepts — secure boot, measured boot, TPMs, and hardware attestation
Experience with capacity forecasting, demand modeling, or allocation optimization at scale
Hands-on background with telemetry and observability platforms at scale (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana)
Prior experience building infrastructure platforms at hyperscalers or cloud providers where internal engineers are the primary customer
Familiarity with hardware-software co-design — understanding how platform choices affect physical infrastructure utilization

Responsibilities

Leading the team responsible for the platform services that abstract underlying infrastructure into reliable, allocatable capacity, and for the systems that track and reconcile state across a large fleet
Setting the technical roadmap across capacity and utilization intelligence, resource lifecycle and state management, and platform security and trust frameworks
Driving the design of secure, well-instrumented platform systems — from Kubernetes-based orchestration and automation to lower-level system and hardware integration
Hiring, mentoring, and growing a team of infrastructure software engineers; building a high-performing organization from a strong foundation
Partnering with infrastructure, production engineering, and security teams to align platform capabilities with operational reliability, capacity, and trust requirements
Improving platform efficiency and availability — characterizing bottlenecks, reducing stranded resources, and shortening operational and recovery cycles
Establishing engineering standards for infrastructure software development: code quality, testing, deployment safety, and on-call practices for systems that span the platform
Translating a vertically integrated infrastructure stack into reliable platform primitives that engineering teams can build on
Staying technically hands-on — reviewing designs, contributing to architecture decisions, and being credible to the engineers you lead