Staff Software Engineer, Storage
About The Position
The Cloud Storage team at Crusoe seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead development and execution of the company’s storage strategy. The role drives innovation and performance improvements within cloud storage infrastructure, using advanced storage engineering concepts to build and operate high-performance, scalable, and reliable storage solutions. The engineer leads cloud storage feature development with product and engineering partners, contributes code and design documentation, and participates in software qualification and rollouts across the stack, from bare metal to user-facing APIs. The role also guides architecture and design decisions, reviews, and implementation; mentors engineers; champions organization-wide engineering initiatives; and benchmarks and improves scale, performance, and resiliency. Crusoe describes itself as a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that owns and operates layers of its stack, from electrons to tokens, and takes an energy-first approach to AI infrastructure.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience building and operating large-scale, complex distributed cloud computing infrastructure products.
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices across the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Strong experience with at least one programming language such as Java or Go.
- Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tooling such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or Terraform.
- Knowledge of Linux systems internals and computer architecture.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Must be able to pass a background check.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building redundant and fault-tolerant storage solutions with backups, replication, encryption, and data protection mechanisms.
- Hands-on experience with storage technologies such as NVMe, SSDs, and distributed storage systems.
- In-depth understanding of at least one of block storage, object storage, or file storage.
- Familiarity with storage protocols such as NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF.
- Demonstrated contributions to open-source projects or communities such as Ceph, GlusterFS, or OpenEBS.
- System programming experience with C, C++, or Rust.
- Understanding of physical and software-defined networking concepts.
- An advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Responsibilities
- Lead engineering efforts on cloud storage features, collaborating with product and engineering to define and execute roadmap features.
- Write and review code and generate and review design documentation.
- Participate in software qualification and rollouts across the stack, from bare metal to user-facing APIs.
- Guide the engineering team through architecture decisions, design processes, design reviews, code reviews, and implementation tasks.
- Mentor and grow engineers, fostering teamwork and continuous learning.
- Lead engineering-organization initiatives such as tech talks, open-source development, and book clubs.
- Benchmark, analyze, and improve scale, performance, and resiliency issues.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off, paid holidays, and leave of absence programs
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Employer contributions to HSA account
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Professional development and tuition reimbursement
- Mental health and wellness support
- Commuter benefits (parking and transit)
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
- Volunteer time off
- Global travel insurance and emergency assistance
- Daily meals allowance
- Additional perks and programs specific to location
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
