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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.
About the Role:
As a Senior Software Engineer on our storage team, you'll be joining our core engineering team to design, build, and optimize our next-generation cloud storage products. We're looking for a hands-on engineer with deep expertise in building storage systems. You will be responsible for building highly performant, reliable, and scalable distributed storage systems that are critical to our infrastructure and our customers' AI/HPC workloads.
What You'll Be Working On:
Building Our Multi-Petabyte Cloud Storage Platform
Building core components of our foundational storage products, purpose built for high performance AI and ML workloads
Contributing to distributed file, block and object storage products, with a focus on filesystem based solutions
System Design & Architecture
Design and implement high-performance, scalable, and resilient storage architectures that are highly extensible
Proposing and prototyping novel strategies to scale performance and system throughput for our most demanding customer workloads
Building observability, metrics and tooling for our services and fleet
High Velocity Problem Solving
Troubleshooting and resolving unique and complex distributed systems problems only seen at the scale we operate at
Provide ongoing support for production systems, and customer workloads including troubleshooting, performance tuning, and incident response
Cross-functional Collaboration
Foster strong collaboration with other engineering teams (e.g., Software Infrastructure, Product) and cross-functional departments
Single threaded ownership and representation of the storage team in business critical initiatives across the company
What You'll Bring to the Team:
Hands-on proficiency in modern software development best practices, and practical experience in languages like Go, Java, C/C++, or Rust
Extensive experience developing multi-tenant, cloud scale distributed storage infrastructure software and systems
Experience contributing to at least one or more of the following storage products: File (e.g., NFS, SMB, Lustre), Object, or Block Storage (e.g., NVMe, iSCSI)
A strong background in high performance filesystem based products, VFS and linux filesystems (e.g., ext4, XFS, ZFS)
Proficiency working with Linux and its storage subsystems.
Knowledge of monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana), log analysis, distributed tracing and debugging
Bonus Points
Experience with AI/HPC storage solutions, such as Parallel Filesystems or petabyte+ scale Object Storage.
Familiarity with networking technologies like RDMA and Infiniband.
Familiarity with modern storage technologies (e.g GPU Direct Storage, F2FS, SPDK etc)
Prior experience with Nvidia SuperNIC DPUs for storage optimization
Prior experience in Storage Virtualization & Orchestration, volume placement strategies and distributed metadata management
Research publications or open-source contributions to storage-related projects.
Benefits:
Competitive compensation and equity packages
Restricted Stock Units
Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
Employer contributions to HSA account
Paid parental leave
Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
Professional development & tuition reimbursement
Mental health & wellness support
Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
Cell phone stipend
401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
Volunteer time off
Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
Daily meals allowance
Additional perks & programs specific to location
Compensation Range
Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $170,000-$190,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant's knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.
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