Staff Software Engineer, Crusoe Energy Systems
Cloud Availability Platform Engineer
$180-210k
+ Restricted Stock Units
Crusoe offers sponsorship
Clean computing infrastructure
Open for applications
Clean computing infrastructure
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$180-210k
+ Restricted Stock Units
Crusoe offers sponsorship
201-500 employees
Company mission
To align the future of computing with the future of the climate.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for engineers who thrive at the intersection of infrastructure and developer experience, and who are passionate about performance, reliability, and automation
- 8+ years of experience in platform, backend, or infrastructure engineering roles
- Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes internals, deployment patterns, and operational tooling
- Strong understanding of networking in containerized environments, including DNS, load balancing, and traffic routing
- Practical experience implementing and supporting event-driven systems at scale
- A proven ability to build and evolve API-driven infrastructure used by developers and systems alike
- Familiarity with observability tooling like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and structured logging practices
- Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Helm) and CI/CD pipelines
Desirable
- Experience contributing to open-source infrastructure projects
- Familiarity with multi-cloud environments and hybrid cloud patterns
- Exposure to zero-downtime deployment strategies and advanced rollback mechanisms
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to help design, deploy, and operate robust Kubernetes environments and scalable infrastructure systems
- Designing, deploying, and operating Kubernetes infrastructure for multi-tenant, distributed applications
- Implementing and optimizing the container and host networking stack, including CNI plugins, network policies, and service mesh integrations
- Building and evolving event-driven platforms using Kafka, NATS, or cloud-native pub/sub systems
- Developing and maintaining API interfaces (REST/gRPC) to power internal infrastructure services and developer tooling
- Driving improvements in system reliability, scalability, and observability through automation, instrumentation, and best practices
- Collaborating closely with SREs, security engineers, and backend developers to deliver infrastructure with strong operational maturity
- Contributing to and maintaining infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines for consistent, automated deployments
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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