Senior Production Engineer, SDN

Crusoe is an active AI-infrastructure company operating an AI cloud platform, managed AI services, and AI data-center infrastructure.

Series E14 current maintainers9 active leads5 lead step-downsTeam intelligence

Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026

Denver, United States
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

Build automation and self-healing tools for software-defined networking infrastructure. Improve routing convergence, traffic engineering, policy enforcement, fault isolation, availability, latency, and performance; investigate incidents through telemetry and packet analysis; and optimize networking systems, drivers, and control planes.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years of professional experience in production engineering, systems engineering, or networking engineering
  • Experience automating network provisioning, configuration, and remediation
  • Experience with SDN platforms and protocols
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, or C
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code and deployment tooling
  • Knowledge of Linux networking internals, kernel modules, and packet scheduling
  • Familiarity with BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, and network virtualization
  • Experience with containerized workloads, Kubernetes, Docker, and CNI plugins
  • Incident response, troubleshooting, and documentation experience
  • Experience operating managed networking services at scale

Responsibilities

  • Build automation and self-healing tools
  • Monitor and maintain SDN infrastructure
  • Improve routing convergence, traffic engineering, policy enforcement, and fault isolation
  • Support user-facing networking services
  • Reduce latency and tune performance
  • Investigate and resolve networking incidents
  • Optimize network stacks, drivers, and control planes
  • Contribute to fault-tolerant SDN backend architecture

Benefits

  • Industry competitive pay
  • Restricted Stock Units
  • Health insurance options including HDHP and PPO
  • Vision insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Employer HSA contributions
  • Paid parental leave
  • Paid life insurance
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance
  • Teladoc
  • 401(k) with 100% match up to 4% of salary
  • Paid time off
  • Paid holidays
  • Cell phone reimbursement
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Calm app subscription
  • MetLife Legal
  • Company-paid commuter benefit of $300 per month