Senior Production Engineer, Storage

Crusoe•Sunnyvale, CA

7d•$170,000 - $205,000

About The Position

Crusoe Energy Systems is seeking a Senior Production Engineer focused on storage to support the Site Reliability Engineering team. The role helps maintain the performance and reliability of Crusoe's AI-optimized cloud infrastructure by ensuring the availability, performance, and scalability of storage services for compute-intensive, latency-sensitive AI and HPC workloads. It contributes to a vertically integrated cloud platform by building and optimizing distributed, fault-tolerant storage systems at scale. The engineer will automate monitoring and maintenance of distributed block, file, and object storage infrastructure; improve data replication, encryption, backup and restore, and failover; and help implement and maintain high-performance NVMe- and SSD-backed volumes for AI compute clusters. The role supports user-facing storage services, focusing on availability, performance tuning, and error budgets. It also investigates storage incidents using telemetry, logs, and performance profiling, works with hardware and kernel teams on low-level I/O issues, and contributes to scalable, fault-tolerant storage architecture for AI-first cloud environments.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
At least 5 years of professional experience in Storage SRE, systems, or storage engineering.
Hands-on experience with enterprise storage platforms such as Pure Storage or EMC, including understanding how the systems are architected and operated.
Deep understanding of object, block, and file storage paradigms.
Proficiency in a programming language such as Go, Python, Java, or C.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code and deployment tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
Deep knowledge of Linux internals, particularly I/O subsystems, memory management, and storage scheduling.
Familiarity with storage protocols such as NFS, SMB, iSCSI, or NVMe-oF.
Strong experience with containerized workloads and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or Docker.
Excellent incident response, troubleshooting, and documentation practices.
Experience building and operating managed object, file, and block storage services at scale, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience with distributed storage systems such as Ceph, GlusterFS, OpenEBS, Vast, or Lightbits.
Contributions to open-source storage projects or the Linux storage stack.
Experience with hybrid storage models across on-premises and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

Build automation and self-healing tools to monitor and maintain distributed cloud storage infrastructure, including block, file, and object storage.
Drive reliability initiatives for data replication, encryption, backup and restore strategies, and failover mechanisms.
Collaborate with storage engineers to implement and maintain high-performance NVMe- and SSD-backed volumes for large-scale AI compute clusters.
Support user-facing storage services, focusing on availability, performance tuning, and adherence to error budgets.
Investigate and resolve storage-related incidents using telemetry, logs, and performance profiling.
Partner with hardware and kernel teams to diagnose low-level I/O issues and optimize I/O paths, cache policies, and file systems.
Contribute to the architecture of fault-tolerant, scalable storage backends for AI-first cloud environments.

Benefits

Industry-competitive pay.
Restricted Stock Units.
Health insurance options including HDHP and PPO, plus vision and dental coverage for employees and dependents.
Employer contributions to HSA accounts.
Paid parental leave.
Paid life insurance and short-term and long-term disability coverage.
Teladoc.
401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary.
Generous paid time off and holiday schedule.
Cell phone reimbursement.
Tuition reimbursement.
Subscription to the Calm app.
MetLife Legal.
Company-paid commuter benefit of $300 per month.