Senior Staff Software Engineer, Storage
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
Define the long-term technical strategy for a cloud storage engine and drive its architectural roadmap. Build storage foundations with C, C++, Go, or Rust, work with storage protocols, lead critical architecture decisions, solve performance bottlenecks across distributed clusters, and collaborate with executive leadership and product teams.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed cloud computing infrastructure products
- Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills
- Deep theoretical and practical knowledge of distributed state and data protection at petabyte scale
- Mastery of professional software engineering practices across the full SDLC
- Ability to lead initiatives across the engineering organization
- Experience with C, C++, Go, and/or Rust
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the long-term technical strategy for the storage engine
- Identify industry trends and integrate them into the storage roadmap
- Build the foundations of the storage re-architecture
- Architect and implement NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe/TCP solutions
- Drive and maintain open-source contributions
- Serve as the final arbiter for critical architecture decisions
- Lead complex design reviews across storage, networking, and virtualization
- Lead teams solving performance bottlenecks
- Align technical capabilities with business milestones
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off and paid holidays
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Employer contributions to HSA account
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance
- 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