Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Crusoe Energy Systems
Compute
$212.5-250k
+ Bonus + Restricted Stock Units
Clean computing infrastructure
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Clean computing infrastructure
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$212.5-250k
+ Bonus + Restricted Stock Units
201-500 employees
Company mission
To align the future of computing with the future of the climate.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of professional experience in SRE, Linux system engineering, or compute infrastructure roles
- Strong proficiency in Linux kernel internals, with exposure to scheduler, memory allocation, and driver subsystems
- Experience with virtualization architectures and technologies such as KVM, Xen, QEMU, or VMware
- Familiarity with SmartNICs/DPUs (e.g., NVIDIA CX6/7, BlueField-3) and kernel bypass techniques
- Expert-level skills in at least one programming language: C, Go, or Rust
- Experience with system-level debugging, including kdump, kexec, and kernel panic analysis
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tooling and CI/CD practices for bare-metal or cloud infrastructure
- Strong understanding of compute scheduling, resource management, and high-throughput networking
What the job involves
- At Crusoe, we are building the most sustainable, AI-first cloud infrastructure, and our Compute-focused Site Reliability Engineers are the backbone of that mission
- This role is centered on supporting virtualization, hypervisor, and kernel-level performance for Crusoe’s compute infrastructure
- You’ll play a vital role in deploying and optimizing bare-metal and virtualized compute platforms, ensuring performance, security, and scale for modern AI and HPC workloads
- In this role, you will develop automation and observability tools to monitor Crusoe’s compute infrastructure, spanning from the kernel to orchestration layers
- You will support and scale the company’s virtualization stack, including technologies such as KVM, QEMU, and other hypervisors
- Collaborating with Linux kernel and hardware teams, you’ll help identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, driver issues, and optimize hardware offloads
- A key focus will be on optimizing performance for AI and HPC workloads across CPU, GPU, and DPU/NIC resources
- You will participate in root cause analysis for kernel crashes, hardware-software integration problems, and performance regressions, while also integrating hypervisor-level enhancements to improve guest VM reliability and workload isolation
- The role involves tuning kernel subsystems such as the process scheduler, NUMA configuration, memory management, and interrupt handling
- Additionally, you will work closely with platform teams to implement and validate support for emerging compute hardware, including SmartNICs, BlueField devices, and TPUs
Our take
Methane, that is mostly generated by flaring in the oil and gas industry, is a major contributor to global warming - as are the carbon emissions produced by global computing (especially bitcoin mining.) Crusoe Energy Systems reduces flaring, and repurposes waste natural gas into energy for these processes, thus removing methane from the atmosphere and simultaneously reducing the carbon footprint of computing.
Crusoe's mobile data centers can be deployed to generate power from methane waste at its source. As well as its patented Digital Flare Mitigation system, Crusoe is also working to enable alternative revenue streams for renewable and clean energy projects, with the ultimate aim to run data centers on renewable energy.
The company has connections with Kraken Oil & Gas, Devon Energy, Enerplus, and more; and its computing power is used by institutes such as MIT. The rising pressure to take action on climate change, coupled with the need for high-energy computing as more infrastructure moves online, has placed it in a massive industry. With the capability of its systems to reduce the equivalent of 8,000 tonnes per year of CO2 and 2023 debt financing amounting to $200 million in investment, Crusoe Energy Systems is well positioned to make an impact and drive for further success.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
31% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2024
$600m
SERIES D
Apr 2022
$350m
SERIES C
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Stock options 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
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
- Teladoc
- 401(k) with a 4% match
- Unlimited time off
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Tuition reimbursement
- Subscription to the Calm app
- Company paid commuter benefit; $100 per month
- Pet-friendly offices
Company HQ
LoDo, Denver, CO
Leadership
Cully Cavness
(President & COO)Started their career as an Energy Infrastructure Research Fellow before spending 3 years as a Business Development Manager at Recurrent Engineering and serving as CFO of Sword & Plough. They left their role as VP of Highlands Natural Resources to co-found Crusoe Energy Systems.
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