Senior Backend Tooling Software Engineer, Crusoe Energy Systems
$175-210k
+ Restricted Stock Units + Bonus
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Be an early applicant
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$175-210k
+ Restricted Stock Units + Bonus
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Tooling & Internal Platform Experience: Proven experience building internal tools or platforms that improve developer productivity, operational workflows, or customer support capabilities
- Customer & Operator Empathy: Strong understanding of the needs of Customer Success, Support, or Operations teams, with a passion for improving their efficiency and effectiveness
- Professional Experience: 5+ years of software experience in backend development
- Distributed Systems Expertise: Experience designing and operating scalable, fault-tolerant systems with strong observability and debuggability
- Cloud & Infrastructure Knowledge: Familiarity with cloud platforms and infrastructure tooling such as Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and CI/CD systems
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to work deeply with non-engineering stakeholders (Customer Success, Support, Operations) to translate needs into technical solutions
- Automation Mindset: A strong inclination toward eliminating manual processes through automation and building self-service capabilities
- Mentorship & Leadership: Experience mentoring engineers and influencing technical direction across teams
- Communication Skills: Ability to clearly articulate technical concepts and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Tooling Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale the internal platforms and tools that empower Crusoe’s Customer Success, Support, and internal Engineering teams. You will be part of the Cloud Customer Experience (CCX) organization, focused on enabling operational excellence through high-leverage tooling
- This role is critical in ensuring that internal teams can move quickly, debug issues efficiently, and deliver a seamless experience to our customers. You’ll build systems that provide visibility into customer environments, streamline workflows, and reduce operational friction across the cloud platform
- Enable Faster Debugging: Build tools that allow internal teams to quickly diagnose and resolve customer issues across distributed systems
- Improve Operational Velocity: Develop workflows and automation that reduce time-to-resolution and eliminate repetitive manual tasks
- Partner Cross-Functionally: Work closely with Customer Success, Support, SRE, and Product teams to identify gaps and deliver impactful tooling solutions
- Build for Scale: Design systems that support rapid growth in customers, infrastructure, and internal users
- Drive Observability: Enhance logging, metrics, and tracing capabilities to provide actionable insights across the platform
- Mentor and Lead: Guide engineers through design reviews and implementation, contributing to a strong engineering culture
- Design, develop, and maintain internal tooling that enables internal teams to test, troubleshoot, debug, and resolve customer issues quickly
- Build platforms that provide deep visibility into system health, usage, billing, and customer environments
- Develop automation tools that reduce manual intervention and improve operational efficiency across teams
- Partner closely with Customer Success, Engineering, Product, and Infrastructure teams to understand pain points and deliver high-impact solutions
- Contribute to architectural decisions that improve system observability, debuggability, and maintainability across the platform
- Drive best practices in tooling, developer experience, and operational excellence
- Mentor engineers, enhance hiring practices, and contribute to building a strong, inclusive engineering culture
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
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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