Staff Production Engineer, Crusoe Energy Systems
Operational Excellence
$172-209k
Offers RSUs and Bonus
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Open for applications
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$172-209k
Offers RSUs and Bonus
Office located in Sunnyvale, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
- 8+ years of experience in Production Engineering, SRE, or large-scale infrastructure operations
- Demonstrated experience supporting GPU workloads, HPC environments, or latency/throughput-sensitive distributed systems
- Deep knowledge of Linux/Unix systems, including debugging complex issues across kernel and user space
- Strong understanding of modern cloud infrastructure fundamentals including Kubernetes, distributed systems, virtualization, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)
- Proven track record with incident management practices and reliability frameworks (SRE, ITIL, or similar)
- Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools such as Terraform or Ansible
- Proficiency in scripting or programming with languages such as Go, Python, C, or C++
- Exceptional communication skills and the ability to influence and collaborate across engineering teams
- Ability to remain calm and effective while troubleshooting complex issues in high-impact production environments
- A growth mindset and strong commitment to reliability engineering, automation, and operational excellence
Desirable
- Experience leading Kubernetes or container orchestration platforms at scale
- Exposure to change management processes, operational readiness reviews, or structured root cause analysis
- Experience designing self-healing systems, automated remediation, or event-driven operational tooling
- Interest in scaling AI or HPC infrastructure and solving reliability challenges in GPU-heavy environments
- Passion for mentorship, growing teams, and developing deep expertise in Production Engineering
What the job involves
- Crusoe is building the most reliable, energy-efficient, AI-optimized cloud platform — and Production Engineering sits at the heart of that mission. As a Staff Production Engineer focused on Operational Excellence, you will help ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of Crusoe's GPU cloud that powers next-generation AI workloads
- This role is ideal for senior engineers who enjoy solving complex production problems, leading reliability strategy across large-scale distributed systems, and building automation that keeps infrastructure running smoothly
- You'll play a key role in strengthening the operational foundation of Crusoe's cloud while helping scale infrastructure that supports demanding AI and HPC workloads
- You'll partner closely with Production Engineers, infrastructure teams, and platform engineers to improve system reliability, reduce operational toil, and drive continuous improvements across Crusoe's rapidly growing GPU cloud
- Lead cross-functional efforts to define and evolve availability metrics for Crusoe's cloud platform, including establishing, measuring, and improving SLIs and SLOs
- Drive production incident response, diagnosing and resolving service disruptions while leading post-incident reviews and root cause analysis
- Architect, operate, and improve observability across Crusoe's infrastructure using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, and OpenTelemetry
- Identify reliability risks, performance bottlenecks, and early indicators of potential production issues across distributed systems
- Design and develop automation and tooling that reduces operational toil, improves recovery times, and enables self-healing infrastructure
- Partner with compute, networking, storage, and platform teams to strengthen service resilience and disaster recovery capabilities
- Define and champion operational processes, knowledge sharing, and reliability best practices across the engineering organization
- Mentor and grow junior and mid-level engineers, helping build technical depth across the team
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
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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