Senior Staff Software Engineer Storage
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 8/14/2026
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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 define the long-term technical strategy for a cloud storage engine and drive its architectural roadmap. You will 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