Staff Software Engineer, CAPE

Crusoe•Sunnyvale, CA

3d•$209,000 - $253,000

About The Position

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to architect, design, and develop the intelligence layer that controls how every GPU node in Crusoe's fleet gets assigned, monetized, and managed. You would be one of the first engineers on both the Virtual Pool Service and Capacity Management Intelligence systems, shaping implementation, making real design decisions, and building the foundational infrastructure that Crusoe's entire cloud platform depends on. You'll play a crucial role in delivering end-to-end use cases and workflows for a vertically integrated, AI-first cloud while driving key business revenue metrics at scale.

Requirements

A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
10+ 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
A collaborative, platform-minded approach to building robust systems and driving adoption across dev and ops teams
Ownership mentality with comfort owning a system end to end: design, implementation, testing, ops, and iteration
Good judgment under ambiguity, with the ability to drive open-ended technical decisions to resolution
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 that handles priority-descending allocation, forward availability forecasting, and automated node lifecycle transitions — replacing manual spreadsheet workflows with enforced, auditable, event-driven automation
Collaborating extensively across teams to architect and implement 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 high-performing, highly available cloud architectures optimized for both performance and cost-effectiveness
Streamlining cloud deployment, configuration management, and operations using Go, gRPC, NATS event streaming, PostgreSQL (CNPG on Kubernetes), and Netbox as the physical source of truth
Mentoring fellow engineers and actively contributing to team growth in collaboration with engineering managers

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
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Company paid commuter benefit; $300 per month