Crusoe
Principal Network Production Engineer, Spark
San Francisco, CA - US. Posted a month ago
The role
This senior technical leadership role partners across the full lifecycle of network infrastructure. You will define how new data centers and edge sites come online and how the fleet is operated, monitored, and improved.
What you will do
- Define the multi-quarter technical roadmap for network infrastructure deployment.
- Co-author internal RFCs and technical standards for physical and logical network deployment.
- Partner with Network Architecture to shape designs that scale operationally.
- Set technical direction for ZTP, IaC, and validation tooling.
- Establish burn-in, site acceptance testing, and commissioning criteria.
- Set the operating model for the live network including SLOs, on-call, and change management.
- Serve as senior escalation point for complex network incidents.
- Set direction for observability, alerting, config compliance, and automated remediation.
- Plan firmware and OS upgrades, hardware refresh, and maintenance windows.
- Establish standards and SLAs for vendors and partners.
Required qualifications
- 12+ years of network engineering experience with a focus on large-scale data center deployments, infrastructure programs, and live production operations.
- Experience in hyperscale, large cloud, or ISP environments.
- Proven track record of authoring standards, mentoring engineers, and driving multi-quarter technical initiatives.
- Comfort operating at scale (10K+ network devices, multi-region fabric deployments).
- Deep expertise in structured cabling (SMF/MMF, MPO/MTP), optical transceivers (400G/800G and roadmap to 1.6T), and data center power and cooling.
- Expert hands-on experience with Arista (EOS), Juniper (Junos), and NVIDIA/Mellanox platforms in leaf-spine architectures.
- Strong working knowledge of BGP, EVPN-VXLAN, and LLDP.
- Track record of designing and shipping deployment and operations automation using Python and Ansible.
- Experience running network on-call and incident response at scale.
- Working knowledge of monitoring and telemetry (SNMP, streaming telemetry, syslog, flow data), SLO, and change management.
- Ability to lead multiple complex, concurrent deployment and operational programs.
- Ability to diagnose complex physical layer and link-layer issues using OTDRs, light meters, and packet captures.
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.