Senior Staff Software Engineer Network Automation
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 8/20/2026
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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 own the automation platform that enables the global network fleet to monitor, configure, and heal itself. You will build source-of-truth systems, intent-based configuration pipelines, model-driven telemetry, self-healing workflows, and observability platforms while partnering with Network Architecture and mentoring senior engineers.
Requirements
- 12+ years of network engineering experience
- Production software, platform engineering, and infrastructure as code experience
- Experience designing and shipping network automation platforms
- Mastery of Python or Go
- Experience with gNMI, OpenConfig, NETCONF, and YANG
- Experience owning a network source of truth platform such as NetBox or Nautobot
- Expertise with Arista EOS, Juniper Junos, and NVIDIA/Mellanox platforms
- Knowledge of BGP, EVPN-VXLAN, and LLDP
- Experience building auto-remediation and closed-loop automation
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and streaming telemetry
- Experience operating 10K+ network devices and multi-region fleets
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
Responsibilities
- Define the network automation platform roadmap
- Own the authoritative network source of truth and data model
- Lead declarative network configuration pipelines
- Define gNMI, OpenConfig, and NETCONF/YANG strategies
- Build event-driven self-healing workflows
- Set the direction for telemetry, metrics, alerting, and dashboards
- Partner with Network Architecture on automation-first designs
- Mentor Staff and Senior engineers
- Drive code reviews, design reviews, and architecture decisions
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays and leave of absence programs
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance
- Employer contributions to HSA account
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Professional development and 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