Staff Software Engineer - Storage

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.

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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 similar High Performance Compute workloads. 

We are pioneering advancements in the networking and cloud space, with a focus on AI and ML. We are seeking a seasoned software architect/engineer with a deep passion for building distributed and scalable, high performance storage systems with significant experience contributing to IaaS, Cloud Native Storage Solutions.

Join us to shape the future of High Performance Storage at Crusoe Cloud.

About the Role:

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Cloud Storage team, you will lead the development and execution of our storage strategy. You will work extensively with cloud storage primitives, utilizing advanced storage engineering concepts to drive innovation and performance improvements.

A Day In The Life:

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

• 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

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

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

• Champion and lead initiatives across the engineering organization such as tech talks, open source development and book clubs

• Play a pivotal role in shaping the roadmap for cloud products, guiding engineering endeavors towards revolutionary advancements.

• Benchmark, analyze and improve scale, performance and resiliency issues

You Will Thrive In This Role If You Have:

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Bonus Points:

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

• 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.

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

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

• An understanding of physical and software defined networking concepts.

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

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

Compensation will be paid in the range of $155-250k base. 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.