Staff Production Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

Crusoe • San Francisco, CA

1d • $209,000 - $253,000

About The Position

We’re looking for a Staff Production Engineer to lead the design and operation of critical components within our cloud platform powering our AI-first compute environment. In this role, you will own reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across a defined infrastructure domain while partnering closely with other engineers to evolve broader platform strategy. You’ll combine deep hands-on execution with leadership, helping raise the bar for production engineering practices across the organization.

Requirements

• 7-10 years operating large-scale production workloads on major cloud providers such as GCP or AWS
• Deep knowledge of GCE, Kubernetes in general and GKE in particular, VPC networking, load balancers, firewall rules, interconnect, and GCS
• Strong experience managing Kubernetes workloads and authoring Helm Charts
• Strong Terraform experience and a track record of building automated multi-environment infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes internals, workload orchestration, scaling, and observability
• Ability to debug complex distributed systems across compute, storage, and network boundaries
• Strong cloud security fundamentals, including least privilege, secrets management, and policy enforcement
• Proficiency with Python, Go, or Shell for automation and tooling
• Experience influencing design decisions and partnering with cross-functional teams

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting high-performance or AI/ML workloads in GCP
• Familiarity with service mesh, or multi-cluster Kubernetes operations
• Background in hybrid or multi-cloud infrastructure
• Strong SRE fundamentals including SLOs, incident response, and postmortems
• Experience with Spanner, BigQuery, Bigtable, or large-scale data platforms

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and manage core cloud infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and IAM
• Architect, operate and scale Kubernetes-based platforms
• Deploy and manage Kubernetes workloads using Helm charts and continuous deployment systems
• Help operate the observability platforms for cloud and Kubernetes workloads using tools such as VictoriaMetrics and Grafana
• Develop and maintain Terraform modules to define automated, auditable, and secure cloud environments
• Own VPC design, routing, load balancers, interconnects, peering, and network security boundaries
• Implement policies and guardrails across IAM, resource hierarchy, service accounts, and VPC-SC
• Build automation for provisioning, lifecycle management, and blue/green or canary deploy patterns
• Partner closely with security and platform teams on monitoring, logging, compliance, and operational readiness
• Optimize cloud costs, quotas, and capacity planning across multiple projects and regions
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across compute, storage, and networking layers

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: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed