Senior+ Software Engineer, Storage

Crusoe's mission is to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. We’re crafting the engine that powers a world where people can create ambitiously with AI — without sacrificing scale, speed, or sustainability.

Be a part of the AI revolution with sustainable technology at Crusoe. Here, you'll drive meaningful innovation, make a tangible impact, and join a team that’s setting the pace for responsible, transformative cloud infrastructure.

About This Role:

The Cloud Storage team at Crusoe seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead the development and execution of our storage strategy. This role will be instrumental in driving innovation and performance improvements within our cloud storage infrastructure. You will work extensively with cloud storage primitives, utilizing advanced storage engineering concepts to build and operate high-performance, scalable, and reliable storage solutions.

What You’ll Be Working On:

• Lead Engineering Efforts: Lead engineering efforts on cloud storage features by collaborating with product and engineering to define and execute features on the roadmap.

• Software Development: Write and review code, generate and review design documentation. Participate in qualifications and rollouts of software across the stack journeying from bare metal to user-facing APIs.

• Technical Leadership: Guide the engineering team through architecture decisions, design processes, design reviews, code reviews, and implementation tasks.

• Team Mentorship: Mentor and grow engineers on your team, fostering an environment of teamwork and continuous learning.

• Cross-Team Collaboration: Champion and lead initiatives across the engineering organization such as tech talks, open source development, and book clubs.

• Performance Optimization: Benchmark, analyze, and improve scale, performance, and resiliency issues.

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

• Cloud Storage Expertise: Hands-on experience building and operating large scale, complex distributed cloud computing infrastructure products. Preferably, experience building redundant and fault tolerant storage solutions with backups, replication, encryption, and data protection mechanisms.

• Software Engineering Fundamentals: Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

• Technical Proficiency: Strong experience with at least one application programming language like Java or Go. Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tooling with any of Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and/or Terraform. Knowledge of Linux Systems Internals and computer architecture.

• Communication & Collaboration: Strong communication and collaboration skills.

• Safety and Compliance: Must be able to pass a background check.

Bonus Points:

• Storage Technologies: Hands-on experience with storage technologies such as NVMe, SSDs, and distributed storage systems.

• Storage Protocols: In-depth understanding in at least one of block storage, object storage, and/or file storage. Familiarity with storage protocols like NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF.

• Open Source Contributions: Demonstrated track record of contributions to the open source community (e.g., Ceph, GlusterFS, OpenEBS).

• System Programming: Proven experience in system programming with C, C++, and/or Rust.

• Networking: An understanding of physical and software-defined networking concepts.

• Education: Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

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