Best suited to mid-level engineers with distributed systems experience working in AI infrastructure, prioritizing performance and cross-functional collaboration in San Francisco.
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Original posting from Crusoe via Ashby
Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.
We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.
We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.
If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.
About the Role:
We're looking for a Software Engineer II to help make Crusoe Cloud's container registry fast, reliable, and observable at scale. The registry sits on the critical path of every deployment and job launch on our platform, and its performance directly affects how quickly customer workloads come online. You'll contribute to components of the container registry, with a focus on understanding and improving how the platform performs in production. This is a full-time position.
What You'll Be Working On:
- Build at scale: Contribute to and own components behind Crusoe Cloud's managed container registry, serving the images that training and inference workloads run on.
- Ship end-to-end: Own features across the full lifecycle, design, implementation, testing, rollout, and operation.
- Tackle hard problems: Take on the hard challenges of building a cloud provider, bringing clarity to ambiguous problems and landing simple, pragmatic designs.
- Collaborating across teams: Partner with product and platform teams to align on solutions that serve customers and operations alike.
- Build for reliability: Write and ship sustainable software with observability baked in, so the platform stays maintainable as it grows, issues surface early, and root causes are quick to find.
- Raise the bar operationally: Spot and act on opportunities to make the team's systems easier, safer, and faster to run.
What You'll Bring to the Team:
- Distributed systems fundamentals: You have a solid grasp of how fault-tolerant distributed systems behave under high load, with experience contributing to such services in production.
- A performance mindset: You consider performance in everything you do, bringing hands-on experience profiling and benchmarking real systems, as well as reasoning about the tradeoffs.
- A customer-centric mindset: You keep the end-user top of mind, championing decisions that make the platform more reliable for the people who use it.
- Technical & infrastructure proficiency: You have strong fundamentals in microservices and cloud-native infrastructure technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) alongside languages like Go, Rust, Java, or C++.
- Collaboration and communication: You are comfortable working across functions to align on priorities and to explain technical tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical partners alike.
- Mentorship: You have an interest in helping new teammates onboard onto team systems, as well as helping engineers find their footing and grow.
- Experience: 2 - 4 years of professional software development experience, but we care more about what you’ve built than the exact number.
We know great engineers come from many different paths. If you're excited about this work but don't match every point below, we'd still love to hear from you. What you've built and how you think matters more to us than a perfect checklist.
Bonus Points
- Familiarity with the OCI image and distribution specs
- Experience building container registry products
- Experience with storage or caching systems at scale
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
- Volunteer time off
- Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
- Daily meals allowance
- Additional perks & programs specific to location
Compensation Range
Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $140,000 -$165,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant's knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.
Source: Crusoe careers (Ashby)