Senior Staff Software Engineer, Storage

Crusoe•Sunnyvale, CA

3d•$245,000 - $290,000

About The Position

Crusoe is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for its Cloud Storage team to serve as a primary architect and visionary for its storage strategy. The role defines the multi-year technical roadmap underpinning AI-scale infrastructure and provides architectural strategy for the integrity and global scalability of Crusoe’s storage services. It bridges high-performance NVMe hardware and globally distributed, S3-competitive object stores. The engineer will define the long-term strategy for Crusoe’s storage engine, contribute to a V2 storage re-architecture, and architect solutions using industry-standard storage protocols. The role serves as a technical authority across the Foundations organization, leads complex architecture reviews and performance investigations, stewards open-source contributions, and collaborates with executive leadership and Product to align technical capabilities with business milestones. Crusoe describes itself as a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that owns and operates each layer of its stack, from energy to cloud services. Compensation is listed as up to $245,000–$290,000 plus bonus, with Restricted Stock Units included in all offers. Compensation depends on the applicant’s knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and market data.

Requirements

12+ years of experience building and operating large-scale, complex distributed cloud computing infrastructure products.
Strong troubleshooting and performance-tuning skills, including the ability to profile and optimize the entire IO path.
Self-motivation to work in a fast-paced environment with substantial ownership and minimal supervision.
Deep theoretical and practical knowledge of distributed state and data protection at petabyte scale.
Mastery of professional software engineering practices across the full software development lifecycle, including coding standards, build processes, and testing.
Ability to champion and lead initiatives across the engineering organization.

Nice To Haves

Expertise in one or more public cloud offerings: AWS, GCP, Azure, or OCI.
Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX, and with MLOps.
Experience with high-throughput I/O architectures such as DAOS or SPDK.
Background in RDMA and high-performance networking, including SmartNICs and RoCEv2.
Experience with highly available and scalable systems such as Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, or Kafka.
Strong knowledge of distributed systems fundamentals, including the CAP Theorem, Paxos/RAFT, consistent hashing, and sharding strategies.
Advanced degree (Master’s or PhD) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Responsibilities

Define and drive the long-term technical strategy and roadmap for Crusoe’s storage engine, incorporating relevant industry trends such as CXL and NVMe-oF.
Build the foundations of the V2 storage re-architecture using system programming languages such as C, C++, Go, and/or Rust.
Architect and implement solutions using storage protocols such as NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe/TCP.
Drive and maintain open-source contributions to projects such as Ceph, GlusterFS, Lustre, Spectrum Scale, and OpenEBS.
Serve as the final arbiter for critical architecture decisions across the Foundations organization.
Lead complex design reviews involving storage, networking, and virtualization.
Lead teams investigating difficult performance bottlenecks, from kernel-level IO context switching to global tail latency in distributed clusters.
Collaborate with Executive Leadership and Product to align technical capabilities with business milestones.
Champion and lead initiatives across engineering, such as technical talks and technical reading groups.