Senior Engineering Manager, SDN Control Plane
Crusoe is an AI infrastructure and cloud computing company. It provides GPU cloud capacity, managed AI services, inference, fine-tuning, data centers, and energy infrastructure for AI developers and enterprise customers.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
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About Crusoe, Inc
Crusoe designs, builds, and operates energy-first AI infrastructure, including data centers, GPU cloud computing, and modular AI factories. Crusoe Cloud provides GPU clusters, managed Kubernetes and Slurm, storage, networking, observability, managed inference, serverless fine-tuning, and model deployment through Crusoe Intelligence Foundry. Its customers include AI startups, enterprises, and organizations developing training, inference, analytics, and other compute-intensive workloads.
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About the Role
Lead the team building a scalable SDN control plane for VPC networking across large GPU fleets. Own the roadmap, architecture, implementation, and production operation of distributed systems for network virtualization while mentoring senior and staff engineers and collaborating with data-plane and cloud product teams.
Requirements
- 10+ years in distributed systems or cloud networking engineering.
- 5-7+ years managing senior and staff-level talent.
- Deep knowledge of SDN and network virtualization.
- Knowledge of VXLAN, Geneve, VPC constructs, BGP, and EVPN.
- Experience with OVN, OVS, or equivalent control-plane architectures.
- Hands-on experience building large-scale control planes.
- Experience with state reconciliation, consensus, consistency, API design, and fleet-wide configuration propagation.
- Experience with Go, Kubernetes-style controllers, or similar technologies.
- Understanding of SLOs, convergence-time benchmarking, scale benchmarking, graceful degradation, and blast-radius containment.
Responsibilities
- Define the VPC control-plane roadmap.
- Lead the evolution of network virtualization systems.
- Oversee distributed control-plane service design.
- Drive scalability beyond the current fleet size.
- Lead reliability engineering, benchmarking, regression prevention, and incident response.
- Mentor and grow senior and staff distributed-systems engineers.
- Set technical standards and accountability.
- Partner with data-plane and cloud product teams.
- Deliver low-latency, highly available networking for multi-tenant GPU clusters.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Leave of absence programs
- Comprehensive health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Employer HSA contributions
- 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
- Location-specific perks and programs