Senior Software Engineer, Crusoe Container Registry

Crusoe•San Francisco, CA

35d•$170,000 - $205,000

About The Position

Crusoe is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to enhance the speed and reliability of Crusoe Cloud's container registry as the platform expands. This registry is crucial for every deployment and job launch on the platform, directly impacting how quickly customer workloads become operational. The role involves taking ownership of core registry services, leading its scaling strategy, and being responsible for its performance, degradation, and recovery in production. This is a full-time position.

Requirements

Proven success designing, scaling, and hardening distributed systems, while keeping them reliable under high-load production environments.
Practical experience profiling, benchmarking, and optimizing distributed systems, with sound judgment about latency, throughput, caching, and resource tradeoffs.
Ability to transform ambiguous performance problems into measured action and durable fixes.
Ability to work ahead of demand, identifying constraints before they reach customers.
Experience leading complex projects from design through deployment, carrying them in production, and making difficult calls under visible risk and conflicting requirements.
A customer-centric mindset, translating customer needs into actionable changes in the codebase.
Strong fundamentals in microservices and cloud-native infrastructure technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform).
Proficiency in languages like Go, Rust, Java, or C++.
Comfort working across functions to align on priorities and explain technical tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical partners.
Interest in growing other engineers, such as mentoring teammates, helping newer engineers, or contributing to hiring processes.
5 - 8 years of professional software development experience, including time spent building and operating distributed systems.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with the OCI image and distribution specs
Experience building container registry products
Experience with storage or caching systems at scale

Responsibilities

Own the core services behind Crusoe Cloud's managed container registry, serving the images that training and inference workloads run on.
Take strategic, high-impact components from design through production, and stay accountable for their scalability, reliability and maintainability.
Drive performance improvements, squash bottlenecks, and anticipate demand.
Make architecture tradeoffs that keep the system dependable as it grows.
Guide the team through architecture decisions and design and code reviews, while remaining actively involved in the codebase to tackle complex challenges.
Shape technical designs within the team and across adjacent ones.
Drive dialogue with product and platform partners to align on priorities and system trade-offs.