Director of Engineering, Compute Cloud

The role

The Director of Engineering - Cloud Compute will lead cloud compute engineering to build foundational IaaS offerings and a carbon-reducing AI focused cloud platform. You will guide engineering teams through architecture, design, and implementation while scaling the organization.

What you will do

• Serve as a team lead for cloud compute engineering
• Collaborate with leadership to define and implement the long-term road map and strategy
• Guide the engineering team through architecture decisions, design processes, design reviews, code reviews, and implementation tasks
• Scale the team including managing engineer onboarding, growing or hiring managers, and implementing team and org processes
• Stay aware of the latest trends and techniques in cloud software
• Drive the hiring process to attract top talent and implement strategies to retain and develop professionals

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering management experience
• 10+ years of experience working in software engineering
• In-depth understanding of Compute products (CPU, GPU, ASIC accelerators) and how customers consume them
• Understanding of key hypervisors and virtualization technologies (eg KVM, VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V)
• Familiarity with AI/ML workloads and how they drive compute requirements for the cloud data center
• Proven experience in building and maintaining scalable and highly available fault-tolerant distributed systems and application architectures
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Nice to have

• Proven track record of operating production infrastructure to strict SLOs and SLAs
• Deep expertise in Linux environments, configuration management, and modern deployment automation
• Demonstrated leadership in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Active open-source or upstream contributions to cloud infrastructure, containerization, or virtualization technologies

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

About the company

Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that owns and operates each layer of the stack to power AI workloads. The company uses an energy-first approach to build AI infrastructure.