Principal Software Engineer
Crusoe is an active AI-infrastructure company operating an AI cloud platform, managed AI services, and AI data-center infrastructure.
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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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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will partner with teams across the company to shape the technical direction of compute, storage, and networking platforms powering an AI-first cloud. You will guide architecture decisions, contribute to kernel and driver work, integrate hardware, troubleshoot cross-stack production issues, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- 10+ years building and operating large-scale infrastructure systems
- Hands-on experience across compute, storage, and networking
- Systems programming in C, C++, Rust, or Go
- Deep Linux kernel knowledge
- Experience with KVM/QEMU, container runtimes, and Kubernetes
- Familiarity with distributed storage, NVMe/NVMe-oF, RDMA
- Familiarity with data center fabrics, OVS/OVN, XDP, eBPF, DPDK
- Familiarity with SmartNICs, DPUs, and accelerators
- Production debugging experience across the full stack
- Excellent written communication and mentoring skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
Responsibilities
- Help shape long-term infrastructure strategy for compute, storage, and networking
- Lead architecture reviews, design documents, and code reviews for critical infrastructure
- Work on virtualization and orchestration layers for GPU workloads
- Work on high-throughput low-latency storage systems
- Partner on GPU fabric and high-speed Ethernet network architectures
- Contribute to Linux kernel modules and high-performance drivers
- Collaborate with Hardware teams on accelerator and offload device integration
- Troubleshoot complex production issues across compute, storage, and network
- Evaluate emerging infrastructure technologies and contribute to open source
- Mentor engineers across teams
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
- Health, dental & vision insurance
- Employer HSA contributions
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
- Professional development & tuition reimbursement
- Mental health & wellness support
- Commuter benefits
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) with company match up to 4% of salary
- Volunteer time off
- Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
- Daily meals allowance
