Staff Software Engineer, Crusoe Container Registry

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

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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

Lead the technical direction and scaling roadmap for Crusoe Cloud’s container registry. Drive changes from design through production, optimize latency, throughput, caching, and resource usage, strengthen reliability, influence adjacent teams, respond to incidents, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of professional software development experience
  • Experience designing, scaling, and hardening distributed systems
  • Experience profiling, benchmarking, and optimizing distributed systems
  • Experience owning critical systems from design through production
  • Strong fundamentals in microservices and cloud-native infrastructure
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform
  • Experience with Go, Rust, Java, or C++
  • Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to hiring
  • Familiarity with OCI image and distribution specifications
  • Experience building container registry products
  • Experience with storage or caching systems at scale

Responsibilities

  • Set the architecture and scaling roadmap for the container registry
  • Drive high-impact changes from design through production
  • Develop the system performance strategy
  • Optimize latency, throughput, caching, and resource usage
  • Raise the team’s technical bar through architecture, design, code review, and mentorship
  • Influence designs across adjacent teams
  • Lead the technical response when incidents occur

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity packages
  • Restricted Stock Units
  • Paid time off
  • Paid holidays
  • 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 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
  • Global travel insurance and emergency assistance
  • Daily meals allowance
  • Additional location-specific perks and programs