Senior Staff Software Engineer (CAPE)

Crusoe • Sunnyvale, CA

3d • $253,000 - $288,000

About The Position

We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to set the technical vision and lead the development of the intelligence layer controlling how every GPU node in Crusoe's fleet gets assigned, monetized, and managed. As one of the most senior engineers on both the Virtual Pool Service and Capacity Management Intelligence systems, you will define architecture, make foundational design decisions, and shape the engineering culture of the team. Your work will underpin Crusoe's entire cloud platform and directly drive key business revenue metrics at scale.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
• 12+ years of relevant experience building and operating distributed systems at scale
• Proven experience building reliable, scalable, and secure cloud platforms and running them in production
• Strong distributed systems thinking with the ability to reason about consistency, failure modes, event ordering, and correctness invariants
• Fluency in Go, Rust, Java, or C++; Go is our primary language, but strong engineers from other backgrounds ramp quickly
• Demonstrated ability to define and drive multi-year technical strategy for platform-scale systems, with visible company-level impact
• A track record of independently owning ambiguous, high-stakes technical problems and delivering results
• Experience influencing engineering culture and standards beyond your immediate team, through hiring, design review processes, or org-wide tooling adoption
• Excellent communication and troubleshooting skills across cross-functional teams

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting Kubernetes clusters
• Prior experience with event-driven architectures or message streaming systems (NATS, Kafka, Kinesis)
• Experience with capacity planning, resource scheduling, or fleet management systems
• Background in GPU compute, AI/ML platform infrastructure, or fast-paced startup environments
• A passion for sustainability, clean energy, and building AI infrastructure that scales responsibly

Responsibilities

• Building the Virtual Pool Service (VP Service), a physical infrastructure classification layer that serves as the single source of truth for every GPU node's state, pool membership, and transition history across Crusoe's fleet
• Designing and implementing Capacity Management Intelligence (CMI), the automation layer replacing manual spreadsheet workflows with enforced, auditable, event-driven automation for allocation, forecasting, and node lifecycle transitions
• Collaborating extensively across teams to architect physical infrastructure management systems, availability platforms, and frameworks that meet end-to-end customer use cases
• Championing reliability, scalability, and security of our systems, designing highly available cloud architectures optimized for performance and cost-effectiveness
• Streamlining cloud deployment, configuration management, and operations using Go, gRPC, NATS event streaming, PostgreSQL (CNPG on Kubernetes), and Netbox
• Setting the technical direction for infrastructure intelligence systems across Crusoe's fleet, including multi-quarter roadmap planning and architectural governance
• Representing the Platform Engineering team in company-wide technical forums, influencing cross-organizational standards
• Leading complex architectural decisions involving multi-system trade-offs and driving alignment across engineering, product, and operations leadership
• Identifying and closing gaps in organizational engineering capability through mentorship programs, hiring bar definition, and onboarding frameworks

Benefits

• Industry competitive pay
• Restricted Stock Units in a fast growing, well-funded technology company
• Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents
• Employer contributions to HSA accounts
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
• 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; $300 per month

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior