Senior Manager of Developer Experience, Crusoe Energy Systems
$250-300k
+ Equity & Restricted Stock Units & Bonus
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
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Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$250-300k
+ Equity & Restricted Stock Units & Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: Previous experience leading multiple team charters in DevX, including managing other managers
- Technical Decision-Making: Expert ability to evaluate technical tradeoffs and understand how infrastructure decisions impact the daily productivity of the end-user (the developer)
- Modern Tooling Proficiency: Fluent knowledge of industry-standard AI tooling, build tooling, containerization, and open-source development frameworks
- Workflow Empathy: A demonstrated passion for building empathetic developer and operator workflows that prioritize human productivity
- Cloud-Native Expertise: Professional experience managing or developing within Kubernetes clusters and a deep understanding of container orchestration
- DevOps & Reliability Background: Proven experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Release Engineering, or a similar productivity-focused discipline
- Testing Infrastructure Knowledge: Deep understanding of automated testing infrastructure and how to integrate it into a seamless CI/CD pipeline
- Language & Version Control Mastery: Expertise in modern programming languages (specifically Go) and advanced proficiency in Git-based workflows (GitLab/GitHub)
- Mandatory Education: A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related analytical field (or equivalent professional experience)
Desirable
- Strategic Vision: Experience informing long-term company objectives through technical insight and developer-centric advocacy
- AI Platforms: Experience building AI agent platforms for engineering teams
- Linux Internals: Hands-on experience with Linux image construction, package building
- Automation Mindset: A background in solving complex, multi-layered technical problems and then successfully automating the resulting solutions
What the job involves
- The Developer Experience (DevX) team is a high-impact group charged with fueling the future of Crusoe’s engineering muscle
- We’re responsible for critical developer tools and infrastructure that are used by all of Crusoe engineering
- We focus on accelerating development while ensuring we keep a high bar for quality
- We’re looking for a Senior manager who will own multiple charter’s within DevX, in particular our AI remote agent platform, a suite of standard agents (coding, reviewing, maintenance/upgrades) running on that platform and support for our coding harnesses
- You will play a critical role in shaping our technical direction, communicating a strategic vision, and fostering a company-wide culture of engineering excellence
- By partnering with stakeholders across the organization, you will define the future state of Crusoe’s evolving software development efforts and eliminate the friction that stands between an engineer and their "flow state"
- This is a full-time position for a visionary leader who wants to influence the long-term technical objectives of a company aligning the future of computing with the future of the climate
- Engineering Acceleration: Partner with the broader organization to build paved paths that engineers love to use. Our paved paths are fast, reliable and broadly adopted across all of engineering
- Toil Elimination: Ruthlessly identify and automate away the friction and repetitive tasks that slow down the development process, keeping Crusoe engineers in a state of high productivity
- Library & Environment Creation: Develop the libraries, tools, and pre-production environments necessary for vetting service APIs and complex microservice interactions
- Ecosystem Integration: Unify internal tooling and vendor services to automate workflows, build operational efficiency, and optimize security across the development stack
- Culture of Quality: Lead efforts to establish a culture of continuous quality delivery that scales seamlessly as our engineering headcount and infrastructure grow
- System Optimization: Work diligently to build efficient systems and processes that serve as a force multiplier for the impact of every engineer around you
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 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
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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