Staff Backend Software Engineer, Crusoe Energy Systems
Cloud Management
$215-250k
+ Restricted Stock Units
Crusoe offers sponsorship
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Open for applications
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$215-250k
+ Restricted Stock Units
Crusoe offers sponsorship
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Customer-Centric Mindset: A passion for creating intuitive, high-quality solutions that directly impact customer success and satisfaction. Any experience building out infrastructure tooling is a plus
- Professional Experience: 7+ years of software development experience, including programming with modern compiled languages such as Go, Rust, Java, or C++
- Cloud Expertise: Proven ability to design and scale fault-tolerant distributed systems and develop managed cloud services
- Technical Proficiency: Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, microservices, and infrastructure tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD systems
- Collaboration Skills: Ability to work with cross-functional teams to align priorities and deliver customer-first solutions
- Mentorship Abilities: Experience guiding engineers, improving hiring and onboarding processes, and driving team growth
- Communication Skills: Exceptional ability to articulate complex ideas and align technical solutions with customer needs
What the job involves
- We are seeking talented Software Engineers to design, build, and scale Crusoe Cloud’s customer-facing platforms and services. The Cloud Customer Experience (CCX) team is at the forefront of delivering a best-in-class user experience for our AI-focused cloud platform. Our mission is to provide an intuitive, seamless user flow while ensuring backend reliability and scalability that set us apart from the competition. Your work will focus on delivering highly scalable and reliable services for authentication, user management, billing, usage and much more
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable services that power our cloud platform’s user-facing experiences
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, like product and design, to evaluate tools, frameworks, and customer needs, creating innovative solutions that differentiate Crusoe Cloud
- Design and build backend systems that underpin our cloud platform, covering everything from authentication flows to scalable, reliable access to infrastructure resources
- Contribute to architectural decisions that support reliability and maintainability across the company
- Mentor engineers, enhance hiring practices, and contribute to building a strong, inclusive engineering culture
- Design and Deliver Customer Solutions: Build scalable, reliable cloud services, such as user access management, Gateways, user features, and notification systems, tailored to customer needs
- Focus on Customer Empowerment: Partner with customer success and operations teams to create intuitive tools that enhance the end-user experience
- Automate and Optimize: Develop automation software that simplifies infrastructure deployment and management for seamless customer operations
- Innovate: Implement features that differentiate Crusoe Cloud, focusing on operational efficiency, low-touch adoption, turn-key AI services and scalability
- Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with cloud support, engineering, and site reliability teams to align technical solutions with customer feedback and operational goals
- Mentor and Lead: Guide engineers through design discussions, code reviews, and best practices, fostering a culture of technical excellence and customer-centricity
Our take
Crusoe is tackling one of the biggest challenges facing the digital age: the enormous energy demand of data centres and AI infrastructure. As AI models grow more powerful, they require immense computing power (and therefor electricity) to train and operate. This surge in energy use has put some pressure on power grids, driven up costs, and raised environmental concerns. Crusoe is on a mission to make this process more sustainable by finding smarter, cleaner, and more efficient ways to power the data centres that drive modern computing.
The company started out by putting wasted energy to work. Originally known as Crusoe Energy, it captured natural gas that would otherwise be burned off ("flared") at remote oil sites and used it to power modular data centres. Today, Crusoe has evolved into a major player in AI infrastructure, designing and operating large-scale data centres near renewable or stranded energy sources. It's now one of a handful of "neocloud" companies (next-generation cloud providers focused on flexible, efficient computing for AI workloads). And its facilities are helping tech giants like OpenAI handle the massive computing requirements of training advanced AI models.
Recently, Crusoe has attracted some huge investor attention, tripling its valuation to over $10B and raising $1.4B in its latest funding round. It's building OpenAI's first major US data centre campus and even experimenting with bold new frontiers. In partnership with Starcloud, Crusoe plans to deploy the world's first space-based cloud computing infrastructure, powered by solar energy and orbiting the Earth by 2027. If successful, this could redefine how and where computing happens, opening up a cleaner, virtually limitless source of energy for AI's next generation.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
31% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2025
$1.4bn
SERIES E
Dec 2024
$600m
SERIES D
Total funding: $2.5bn
Company benefits
- Health & wellbeing: Comprehensive health benefits designed to support your overall wellness
- Time away: Paid time off for vacations, family bonding, and unexpected needs
- 401(k) match: Build your financial future with our 401(k) matching program
- Mental wellness: Resources and support for your emotional wellbeing and navigating life's challenges
Company HQ
LoDo, Denver, CO
Leadership
Cully Cavness
(Co-Founder, COO & President)Began 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.
Chase Lochmiller
(Co-Founder & CEO)Prior to co-founding Crusoe in 2018, Chase was a General Partner at Polychain Capital, a Quantitative Trade at Jump Trading Group, and a Managing Director of Algorithmic Trading at KCG Holdings.
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