Senior Manager, Network & Cloud Architecture
Crusoe is an AI infrastructure and cloud computing company. It provides GPU compute, AI model training and inference, developer tools, managed orchestration, data centers, and energy infrastructure for AI builders 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 high-performance data centers, modular AI factories, and Crusoe Cloud. Its cloud platform provides NVIDIA and AMD GPU compute, scalable storage, high-performance networking, managed Kubernetes and Slurm, observability, model training, fine-tuning, and inference services. Crusoe serves AI developers, startups, enterprises, and teams running production-scale AI workloads.
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About the Role
Lead the organization responsible for the physical and logical network fabric powering Crusoe's AI-first cloud across edge, backbone, data center, and SDN/cloud domains. Manage architects, managers, and senior and staff engineers; set multi-year architecture strategy; arbitrate cross-domain tradeoffs; establish engineering standards and design reviews; and partner with product, hardware, infrastructure, and executive stakeholders.
Requirements
- 12+ years in network engineering or architecture.
- 5+ years managing individual contributors.
- Experience leading network architecture at hyperscale across 1000+ switches and multi-campus or multi-region environments.
- Fluency across edge, backbone, data center fabric, and SDN/cloud networking.
- Strong command of SDN and cloud-native networking.
- Experience setting multi-year technical strategy and influencing VP or C-level stakeholders.
- Experience building and scaling technical organizations, including hiring and developing senior and staff engineers.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience with hyperscalers, AI cloud providers, HPC centers, or large-scale colocation operators is a bonus.
- Experience supporting multi-node GPU training infrastructure is a bonus.
- Familiarity with SONiC OS, P4 programmable data planes, or formal network verification tools is a bonus.
- Open-source networking contributions are a bonus.
- Relevant CCIE or JNCIE certifications are a bonus.
Responsibilities
- Own company-wide architecture strategy across edge, backbone, data center, and SDN/cloud domains.
- Arbitrate tradeoffs between backbone capacity, data center fabric bandwidth, and SDN overlay overhead.
- Establish engineering standards, reference architectures, and design review processes.
- Set strategy for PoP design, peering, IX participation, and edge compute and caching placement.
- Set strategy for long-haul and core network design, BGP, MPLS, segment routing, optical transport, and redundancy.
- Set strategy for spine-leaf fabrics, RDMA interconnects, and power- and cooling-aware rack design.
- Set strategic direction for SDN control planes, Kubernetes networking, service meshes, VPCs, load balancers, and security groups.
- Champion intent-based networking, GitOps, and network source-of-truth practices.
- Lead executive-level remediation for major cross-domain outages.
- Partner with product, hardware, infrastructure, and executive stakeholders on multi-year roadmaps.
- Align software and operations teams on execution.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Leave of absence programs
- 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