Staff Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management
Crusoe is an active AI-infrastructure company operating an AI cloud platform, managed AI services, and AI data-center infrastructure.
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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
You will own the multi-quarter architecture of the IAM platform covering fine-grained authorization, SSO and federation, multi-tenant hierarchies and secrets management. You will set standards, make build-vs-buy decisions, tackle high-risk problems, write critical code, lead cross-team alignment, drive threat modeling and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 8+ years of software engineering experience building production distributed systems in Go, including identity, authorization or security-critical systems
- Demonstrated ability to set technical direction and deliver fault-tolerant distributed systems across teams
- Mastery of OIDC, OAuth2, SAML, JWT, RBAC/ABAC, relationship-based authorization, identity federation, SCIM, and secrets management
- Ownership of production reliability including SLOs, observability, incident response and postmortems
- Enterprise security and compliance acumen (e.g., SOC 2)
- Exceptional communication and influence skills
- Proven record of mentoring senior engineers
Responsibilities
- Own IAM architecture and direction for authorization, authentication, federation and identity lifecycle
- Define platform-wide identity primitives, authorization patterns and guardrails
- Lead evaluation and adoption of core IAM technologies, including build-vs-buy decisions
- Solve high-risk problems such as scaling the authorization hot path, multi-tenancy and tenant isolation
- Write and review code on critical and complex paths
- Author design reviews and RFCs and drive cross-team technical alignment
- Lead threat modeling and secure-by-design practices
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers and shape hiring and onboarding
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
- Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
- Employer contributions to HSA account
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
- Professional development & tuition reimbursement
- Mental health & wellness support
- Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) with company match up to 4% of salary
- Volunteer time off
- Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
- Daily meals allowance
- Additional perks & programs specific to location
