Senior Manager of Infrastructure Platform Engineering, Crusoe Energy Systems

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure or systems software development, with at least 3+ years in an engineering leadership role
• Deep expertise in large-scale infrastructure platforms — building services that pool, allocate, and reconcile compute resources at scale
• Strong background with Kubernetes and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure) — orchestration, automation, and operating distributed systems in production
• Experience with distributed state management and control systems — modeling resource and system lifecycle, reconciling desired vs. actual state, and handling failure gracefully across a large fleet
• Experience with efficiency, capacity, or performance engineering — characterizing system behavior, identifying bottlenecks, and driving measurable improvements in utilization or availability
• A player-coach approach to management: hands-on enough to make technical calls, structured enough to grow a team and ship through them
• Track record of hiring strong infrastructure engineers and helping them grow into more senior roles
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where the path isn't fully paved — willing to drive ambiguity to clarity

Desirable

• We are seeking a Senior Manager, Infrastructure Platform Engineering to lead a team building core systems that turn large-scale compute infrastructure into reliable, secure, and efficiently allocatable capacity
• The team owns foundational services spanning resource pooling and allocation, capacity and utilization intelligence, fleet and system lifecycle management, and platform security and trust
• This is a hands-on management role for a leader who has come up through infrastructure and systems software engineering, understands the realities of operating compute at scale across cloud and on-premise environments, and is energized by building the control and platform systems that other engineering teams depend on
• You'll lead a growing team of infrastructure software engineers, set technical direction across the platform, and partner closely with adjacent infrastructure, production engineering, and security teams to keep the substrate reliable, well-utilized, and easy to build on
• While this is an infrastructure-focused role rather than a traditional product role, the systems this team builds are essential to the experience our customers have on the platform
• Reliable capacity, healthy systems, and a trustworthy substrate are what make a seamless, dependable customer experience possible — so the team's work directly underpins the business, even as its immediate users are the internal engineering teams building and operating workloads on top of it
• Leading the team responsible for the platform services that abstract underlying infrastructure into reliable, allocatable capacity, and for the systems that track and reconcile state across a large fleet
• Setting the technical roadmap across capacity and utilization intelligence, resource lifecycle and state management, and platform security and trust frameworks
• Driving the design of secure, well-instrumented platform systems — from Kubernetes-based orchestration and automation to lower-level system and hardware integration
• Hiring, mentoring, and growing a team of infrastructure software engineers; building a high-performing organization from a strong foundation
• Partnering with infrastructure, production engineering, and security teams to align platform capabilities with operational reliability, capacity, and trust requirements
• Improving platform efficiency and availability — characterizing bottlenecks, reducing stranded resources, and shortening operational and recovery cycles
• Establishing engineering standards for infrastructure software development: code quality, testing, deployment safety, and on-call practices for systems that span the platform
• Translating a vertically integrated infrastructure stack into reliable platform primitives that engineering teams can build on
• Staying technically hands-on — reviewing designs, contributing to architecture decisions, and being credible to the engineers you lead