About the role
Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence . As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster. We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI. We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services. If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.
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the Role: We are actively seeking an exceptional Senior Staff Software Engineer for our cloud software team who will serve as a technical leader and strategic force behind the operations of our cutting-edge infrastructure. Your expertise will be instrumental in defining, designing, and scaling our carbon-reducing operating model, as well as driving the long-term vision and reliability of critical hardware, software, and network components. In this role, you will lead complex architectural initiatives, set technical direction across teams, and establish best practices in code quality, system design, and operational excellence. You will author and review high-impact proposals and architecture documents, guiding decisions that shape the organization’s technical landscape. You will evaluate tools and frameworks with a long-term, system-wide perspective, carefully considering their impact on reliability, scalability, operational costs, and organizational adoption. Your deep expertise in orchestration and optimization will be instrumental in advancing our managed Kubernetes and AI training clusters, ensuring they set the industry standard for reliability, performance, and efficiency. What You'll Be Working On: Drive the development of scalable, resilient, and high-performance software solutions, ensuring alignment with and influence over the strategic objectives outlined in the Crusoe Cloud roadmap Provide technical leadership across multiple teams, fostering a culture of innovation, engineering excellence, and accountability while enabling teams to deliver cutting-edge cloud solutions Define and evolve architectural standards and best practices, ensuring consistency, scalability, and long-term maintainability across systems Continuously stay ahead of emerging trends and technologies in cloud software, proactively shaping Crusoe’s technical direction and incorporating innovations that maintain competitive advantage Act as a mentor and multiplier for engineering talent, elevating team capabilities through coaching, design reviews, and thought leadership in technical discussions Lead cross-functional initiatives and drive alignment between engineering, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver cohesive and impactful solutions What You'll Bring to