Staff Software Engineer, Storage

The role

The Staff Software Engineer will lead the development and execution of the cloud storage strategy. You will build and operate high-performance, scalable, and reliable storage solutions using cloud storage primitives.

What you will do

• Lead engineering efforts on cloud storage features by collaborating with product and engineering.
• Write and review code and design documentation.
• Participate in software qualifications and rollouts from bare metal to user-facing APIs.
• Guide the engineering team through architecture decisions, design processes, and implementation.
• Mentor and grow engineers on the team.
• Champion initiatives like tech talks, open source development, and book clubs.
• Benchmark, analyze, and improve scale, performance, and resiliency issues.

Required qualifications

• Hands-on experience building and operating large scale, complex distributed cloud computing infrastructure products.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle.
• 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.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Must be able to pass a background check.

Nice to have

• Experience building redundant and fault tolerant storage solutions with backups, replication, encryption, and data protection mechanisms.
• 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

• 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

Before you apply

• Must be able to pass a background check.

About the company

Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that owns and operates each layer of the stack to power AI workloads. They use an energy-first approach to solve power bottlenecks for AI compute.