Engineering Manager, SDN Control Plane
Crusoe is an active AI-infrastructure company operating an AI cloud platform, managed AI services, and AI data-center infrastructure.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About Crusoe, Inc.
Crusoe designs, builds, and operates energy-first AI infrastructure. Its offerings include Crusoe Cloud for GPU-based training, fine-tuning, inference, and managed services, alongside AI-optimized data centers and energy infrastructure.
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About the Role
Lead the team building Crusoe Cloud's SDN control plane for VPC networking. Own the VPC control-plane roadmap, guide network virtualization and distributed control-plane architecture, support reliability and incident response, benchmark performance, mentor engineers, and collaborate with data-plane and cloud product teams.
Requirements
- 6–8+ years in distributed systems or cloud networking engineering
- 2–4+ years managing engineering talent
- Knowledge of SDN and network virtualization
- Knowledge of VXLAN and Geneve
- Knowledge of VPC constructs
- Knowledge of BGP and EVPN
- Knowledge of OVN and OVS or equivalent control-plane architectures
- Experience building large-scale control planes
- Experience with state reconciliation, consistency tradeoffs, API design, and configuration propagation
- Experience with Go or Kubernetes-style controllers
- Understanding of SLOs, convergence-time benchmarking, graceful degradation, and blast-radius containment
- Experience with DPU or SmartNIC data planes
- Experience with cloud load balancing or NAT at scale
- Experience with network security policy engines
Responsibilities
- Define the VPC control plane roadmap
- Drive the evolution of network virtualization systems
- Design distributed control-plane services
- Support reliability engineering and incident response
- Benchmark convergence and API latency
- Prevent regressions and maintain operational excellence
- Mentor and grow distributed systems engineers
- Set technical standards and promote accountability
- Collaborate with data-plane and cloud product teams
Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Leave of absence programs
- Comprehensive health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Employer contributions to HSA account
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Professional development
- Tuition reimbursement
- Mental health and wellness support
- Commuter benefits
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
- Volunteer time off
- Global travel insurance and emergency assistance
- Daily meals allowance
- Additional location-specific perks