Senior Production Engineer SDN
Crusoe is an AI infrastructure company that designs, builds, and operates AI data centers and a cloud platform. It provides managed AI services, GPU compute, model fine-tuning and inference, and infrastructure operations for organizations building and deploying AI workloads.
Maintainer signals as of 8/12/2026
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About Crusoe
Crusoe, the AI factory company, provides Crusoe Cloud and Crusoe Intelligence Foundry for AI development and production. Its offerings include managed inference, serverless fine-tuning, high-performance NVIDIA and AMD compute, accelerated storage, RDMA networking, managed Kubernetes and Slurm, and operations tooling. The company also designs, builds, and operates modular AI data-center infrastructure using an energy-first approach, serving customers that need scalable training, inference, and AI platform infrastructure.
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About the Role
You will build automation and self-healing tools for software-defined networking infrastructure. You will 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