Senior Staff Infrastructure Engineer - Hardware and Networking (SF)

Crusoe is building the World’s Favorite AI-first Cloud infrastructure company. We’re pioneering vertically integrated, purpose-built AI infrastructure solutions trusted by Fortune 500 companies to power their most advanced AI applications.
Crusoe is redefining AI cloud infrastructure, with a mission to align the future of computing with the future of the climate. Our AI platform is recognized as the "gold standard" for reliability and performance. Our data centers are optimized for AI workloads and are powered by clean, renewable energy.

Be 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.

Crusoe Energy is on a mission to unlock value in stranded energy resources through the power of computation.

Take a look at what we do! - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlt8k71Quqw 

We aim to align the long term interests of the climate with the future of global computing infrastructure. As data centers consume an exponentially growing power footprint to deliver technology to all connected devices, we are inspired by making sure that the energy meeting that demand is sourced in an environmentally responsible fashion. Crusoe co-locates mobile data centers with stranded energy resources, like flare gas and underloaded renewables, to deliver low-cost, carbon-negative distributed computing solutions. Crusoe Cloud is a managed cloud services platform powered by stranded energy that enables climate-friendly innovation in computationally intensive fields including artificial intelligence, graphics rendering and computational biology.

About The Role

We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to help us shape the future of Infrastructure at Crusoe Cloud. You will have the opportunity to work on cutting edge technologies, within a world class team and build the platform that is directly used by our customers to change the world every day.

Here, you will build the cloud and not merely use it.

You will be responsible for deploying and operating a broad range of infrastructure technologies and hardware systems. You’ll lead projects to help evolve our services and participate in the architectural design of solutions. 

We are looking for a motivated individual who is passionate about Linux, Open Source and networking. Someone with a deep understanding of software-hardware interactions that obsesses about low-level Linux configurations and optimizations.

Your role is to build infrastructure-as-code software and tools and use a GitOps approach to interacting and maintaining every aspect of our platform.

A Day in the Life:

• You will configure and automate on-premises Linux-based systems at scale using infrastructure-as-code practices

• You will extend open source tools to integrate distinct systems

• You will be responsible for the full lifecycle of physical systems including deployments, operations, triage and troubleshooting

• Lead the design and build for our compute, storage and networking practices

• Work with Product and Business Development teams to inform and specify our hardware needs

You Will Thrive In This Role If:

• Deep experience and fluency with Linux environments

• Experience with on-premises Data Center operations and technologies (power distribution units, structured cabling, rack design)

• Experience building with modern infrastructure tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, and Terraform

• Experience with TCP/IP configurations and troubleshooting on Linux systems

• Experience writing code to automate infrastructure management tasks with at least one language (Go, Python, Bash or similar)

• 10+ years of infrastructure management experience including bare metal server management, deployments, and OS provisioning using tools such as Packer, Kickstart, MaaS

• 10+ years of experience contributing to architecture, design reliability and scaling of data center infrastructure systems

• Familiarity with Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) tools such Netbox

• Experience with CI/CD practices and build systems, such as GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, GitHub Actions

• Experience with configuring and maintaining observability stacks: logging, monitoring and alerting systems and tools such as syslog, fluentd, Prometheus, AlertManager, and Grafana

• Must be able to pass a background check

• Embody the Company values

Benefits:

• Hybrid work schedule

• 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

• Company paid commuter benefit; $50 per pay period

Compensation Range:

Base compensation will be $230,000 - $290,000/year. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicants knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Crusoe Energy 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.