Staff Software Engineer Crusoe Container Registry
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 lead the technical direction and scaling roadmap for Crusoe Cloud’s container registry. You will 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