Staff Software Engineer, Crusoe Energy Systems
Cloud Availability Platform Engineer
$180-210k
+ Restricted Stock Units
Crusoe offers sponsorship
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Job no longer available
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$180-210k
+ Restricted Stock Units
Crusoe offers sponsorship
1001+ employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
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
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 almost $1.4B in its 2025 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
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
Union Station, 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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