Crusoe
Senior Software Engineer, Platform Networking
San Francisco, CA - US. Posted 2 months ago
The role
You will build a platform for network tooling to support edge, backbone, and data center operations at Crusoe Cloud. You will design systems for network state management, scale control plane systems, and mentor other engineers.
What you will do
- Design and develop systems that manage network state including provisioning, configuration management, and control plane APIs
- Drive engineering efforts to scale control plane systems
- Mentor fellow engineers and provide guidance on technical assessments and code reviews
- Partner with product to assess build vs buy decisions for control plane software
- Partner with product, operations, and other engineering teams to build control plane systems
- Design fault tolerant, distributed control plane systems
- Advocate for modern software development, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code practices
- Take ownership of initiatives from ideation through development and deployment
Required qualifications
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, building backend systems in production
- Proficiency in at least one modern backend language such as Go, Rust, C++, Java, or Python
- Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts: consensus, state reconciliation, fault tolerance, and high availability design
- Track record of designing and building scalable, reliable APIs or services used by multiple teams
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code tooling (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
- Strong communication skills and experience collaborating cross functionally with product, operations, and other engineering teams
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and contribute to technical direction
Nice to have
- Experience with networking software, protocols, or control plane systems (e.g., routing, switching, BGP, SDN)
- Experience at a cloud provider, hyperscaler, or large scale data center operator
- Familiarity with network telemetry/management protocols such as gNMI, gRPC, or NETCONF
- Experience with Kubernetes based orchestration or building custom controllers/operators
- Contributions to open source infrastructure or networking projects
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 build AI infrastructure.