Senior Staff/Principal Software Engineer, Crusoe Energy Systems
Cloud
$250-300k
Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Job no longer available
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$250-300k
Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of professional software development experience
- 10+ years of programming experience with at least one modern language such as Go, Rust, Java, or C++
- 10+ years of experience contributing to architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or 10-12+ years relevant work experience
- 5+ years of being in a mentorship, IC leadership or player / coach role
- Computer Science fundamentals in data structures and algorithm design
- Proven experience in building and maintaining scalable and highly available fault-tolerant distributed systems and application architectures
- Solid understanding of infrastructure design, including the operational trade-offs of various designs
- Familiarity with modern CI/CD practices and build systems, such as GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, GitHub Actions
- Familiarity with modern infrastructure tools, such as Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Cloud Formation, Terraform
- Experience in concurrency, multi-threading and synchronization
- Experience with Unix/Linux environments
- Experience with TCP/IP and network programming
- Excellent communication skills
- Embody the Company values
- Must be able to pass a background check
What the job involves
- We are looking for Senior Staff / Principal Software engineers to help design and scale our carbon-reducing cloud computing platform. With Crusoe Cloud’s upcoming public launch, you will help us advance our storage infrastructure, virtualizing cutting edge computing hardware, and/or building out best in class networking capabilities
- As a Senior Staff / Principal engineer, you will be instrumental in guiding the engineering team's overall architectural strategy, significantly influencing both our technological direction and financial outcomes
- Your role involves cultivating our engineering ethos, establishing scalable practices, and spearheading the development of Crusoe Cloud
- As part of your responsibilities, you'll develop and refine technical and team fit assessments, mentor engineers, and actively contribute to their development in partnership with engineering managers
- Collaborate with product teams, engineers, and infrastructure to craft robust, scalable systems extending across our global data centers
- Develop scalable, fault-tolerant patterns and practices to be adopted throughout the engineering team
- Champion and lead initiatives across the engineering organization such as tech talks, open source development and book clubs
- Design and execute groundbreaking features and projects, journeying from bare metal to user-facing APIs
- Play a pivotal role in shaping the roadmap for cloud products, guiding engineering endeavors towards revolutionary advancements
- Mentor emerging engineers, fostering an environment of teamwork and continuous learning
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.
Steph
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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