Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering
At a glance
Senior Software Engineering role at Crusoe. San Francisco · full-time · $170,000–$205,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Create and operate microservices that automate cloud fleet provisioning, lifecycle changes and capacity planning
- Extend platform services with features that help deliver customer-facing capabilities
- Translate unclear stakeholder requests into modular designs and take them through release
- Build services with GCP and managed Kubernetes alongside infrastructure and partner teams
- Keep shipped services reliable and observable through ongoing ownership
What you bring
- At least five years delivering and operating production backend or platform software
- Strong ability in one backend language, such as Go, Python or another listed option
- Background designing distributed-system microservices and APIs using gRPC or REST
- Practical Postgres knowledge and experience with event-based systems like Kafka
- A record of taking projects from kickoff through delivery and strengthening engineering peers
Who this fits
This senior engineering role suits someone who leads projects end to end while building backend and platform services. The position is onsite in San Francisco.
From the employer
Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.
We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.
We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.
If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.
About the Role
Crusoe's Platform Engineering team builds the services that automate how we manage our cloud fleet. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design and ship modular microservices on top of our underlying infrastructure, turning stakeholder requirements into platform capabilities that directly drive feature delivery and revenue.
What You'll Be Working On
Design, build, and operate microservices that automate fleet provisioning, lifecycle, and capacity management
Extend existing platform services with new features that directly drive customer-facing delivery
Turn ambiguous stakeholder requirements into clear, modular designs and drive them to production
Build on GCP and managed Kubernetes, working closely with infrastructure and cross-functional teams
Own the reliability and observability of the services you ship
What You'll Bring to the Team
5+ years building and operating production backend or platform services
Strong proficiency in at least one backend language such as Go, Python, Java, or C#
Experience designing microservices and APIs (gRPC/REST) in distributed systems
Hands-on experience with Postgres and event-driven systems such as Kafka
A track record of leading projects end-to-end and raising the bar for engineers around you
Bonus Points
Experience building on GCP, AWS, or managed Kubernetes
Capacity management or fleet/hardware lifecycle experience
Neocloud or GPU cloud infrastructure experience
Experience with Go
Observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana)
Benefits
Industry competitive pay
Restricted Stock Units in a fast growing, well-funded technology company
Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents
Employer contributions to HSA accounts
Paid Parental Leave
Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
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401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary
Generous paid time off and holiday schedule
Cell phone reimbursement
Tuition reimbursement
Subscription to the Calm app
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Company paid commuter benefit; $300 per month
Compensation
Compensation will be paid in the range of $170,000 - $205,000. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.