Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Crusoe•Sunnyvale, CA

1d•$208,725 - $253,000•Remote

About The Position

The Developer Experience (DevX) team is a high-impact group charged with fueling the future of Crusoe’s engineering muscle. We’re responsible for critical developer tools and infrastructure that are used by all of Crusoe engineering. We focus on accelerating development while ensuring we keep a high bar for quality. This role holds a broad, mission-critical charter: to empower every Crusoe engineer to deliver positive change to customers quickly, safely, and efficiently. As a member of the DevX team, you will unlock the potential of our coding ecosystem, tackling everything from deep-kernel optimizations to establishing the first principles of unit testing and building AI agent platforms. You will play a critical role in shaping our technical direction, communicating a strategic vision, and fostering a company-wide culture of engineering excellence. By partnering with stakeholders across the organization, you will define the future state of Crusoe’s evolving software development efforts and eliminate the friction that stands between an engineer and their "flow state." This is a full-time position for a visionary builder who wants to influence the long-term technical objectives of a company aligning the future of computing with the future of the climate.

Requirements

Previous experience building developer tools and/or infrastructure for engineering teams
Expert ability to evaluate technical tradeoffs and understand how infrastructure decisions impact the daily productivity of the end-user (the developer).
Fluent knowledge of industry-standard AI tooling, build tooling, containerization, and open-source development frameworks.
A demonstrated passion for building empathetic developer and operator workflows that prioritize human productivity.
Professional experience managing or developing within Kubernetes clusters and a deep understanding of container orchestration.
Proven experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Release Engineering, or a similar productivity-focused discipline.
Deep understanding of automated testing infrastructure and how to integrate it into a seamless CI/CD pipeline.
Expertise in modern programming languages (specifically Go) and advanced proficiency in Git-based workflows (GitLab/GitHub).
A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related analytical field (or equivalent professional experience).

Nice To Haves

Experience informing long-term company objectives through technical insight and developer-centric advocacy.
Experience building AI agent platforms for engineering teams
Hands-on experience with Linux image construction, package building, and kernel-level optimizations.
Active involvement in the open-source community or a track record of staying current with recent industry advancements in developer productivity.
A background in solving complex, multi-layered technical problems and then successfully automating the resulting solutions.

Responsibilities

Partner with the broader organization to build paved paths that engineers love to use. Our paved paths are fast, reliable and broadly adopted across all of engineering.
Ruthlessly identify and automate away the friction and repetitive tasks that slow down the development process, keeping Crusoe engineers in a state of high productivity.
Develop the libraries, tools, and pre-production environments necessary for vetting service APIs and complex microservice interactions.
Unify internal tooling and vendor services to automate workflows, build operational efficiency, and optimize security across the development stack.
Innovate across every stage of the development lifecycle, including source code management, build systems, code review, CI/CD pipelines, platform runtimes, and telemetry.
Lead efforts to establish a culture of continuous quality delivery that scales seamlessly as our engineering headcount and infrastructure grow.
Work diligently to build efficient systems and processes that serve as a force multiplier for the impact of every engineer around you.