Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Monitoring Service (Distributed Systems)

San Francisco, CA - US. Posted 4 months ago

The role

You will lead distributed systems design and development within the Cloud Monitoring Service. You will own the architecture and evolution of large-scale telemetry pipelines to support AI workloads.

What you will do

Own the architecture and evolution of large-scale telemetry pipelines.
Design scalable, multi-tenant services.
Build for operability and improve pipeline reliability.
Participate in a customer-facing on-call rotation.
Set the technical direction for the team's distributed systems work.
Drive design reviews and identify one-way door decisions.
Work with product, compute, networking, and platform teams.
Coach senior and mid-level engineers through design work, code review, and incident response.

Required qualifications

Deep, hands-on experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale.
Experience building or operating large-scale data infrastructure such as time-series databases, log aggregation, streaming pipelines, or distributed tracing backends.
Strong programming fundamentals in Go or another modern compiled language.
Comfort with Kubernetes, microservices, and CI/CD.
On-call experience on a customer-facing service.
8+ years of software development experience, with sustained ownership of production distributed systems.

Nice to have

Go strongly preferred
Familiarity with technologies like Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Kafka, Vector, or similar

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. They use an energy-first approach to solve power bottlenecks for AI compute.