Senior Software Engineer, Crusoe Energy Systems
Developer Experience
$166-200k
+ Restricted Stock Units
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Open for applications
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$166-200k
+ Restricted Stock Units
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- You have expertise in understanding technical decisions, evaluating tradeoffs, and how these decisions impact individuals who will use what you build to optimize their work
- Are knowledgeable on how to leverage Gitlab to work with multiple repositories or Github
- You have fluent knowledge of industry-standard build tooling, containerization, and open source development tools, libraries, and frameworks
- Have experience working with modern build systems like Buck, Bazel, or others
- Have professional experience working with Kubernetes clusters or Kubernetes in general
- You have an understanding of testing infrastructure
- Experience with DevOps, Site Reliability, Release Engineering, or similar
- Bonus points if you have hands on working experience with Linux image construction - not just kernel but package building
- You have experience in relevant and modern open source programming languages (we use Golang)
- You have empathy for building developer and operator workflows and productivity
- You have a passion for staying current on recent industry practices, open source advancements and an efficient developer community
- You like solving complex problems and then automating the solutions
- You enjoy working side-by-side with other top-notch engineers
- You hold either a BS or MS Degree in an Engineering or Analytical field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, Management Science) or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- Crusoe Developer Experience is a new team charged with fueling the future of Crusoe’s developer muscle
- We set the tone for how engineering is done, ensuring that as Crusoe grows, their developer systems and code delivery capacity grow as well
- We have a very broad charter that spans the software life cycle from design through coding, testing, and deployment
- Our mission is to empower Crusoe engineers to deliver positive change to customers quickly, safely and efficiently
- As an early member of the Developer Experience team, you will play a key part in unlocking the potential of Crusoe’s coding ecosystem
- At Crusoe, you will be challenged with deep problems such as kernel upgrades as well as broad problems such as establishing first principles around unit testing, code reviews and rollouts
- As a member of this team, you will take a key role in contributing to technical direction, communicating a strategic vision, and establishing a company culture of engineering excellence
- You will work alongside stakeholders and customers to ensure that our work is aligned with long term company objectives - informing those objectives along the way
- You’ll also lead efforts to define the future state of Crusoe’s evolving and rapidly growing software development efforts
- Partner with the broader engineering organization to build and define standard practices for how services are operated and observed throughout their lifecycle
- Establish an opinionated, flexible and cost-effective toolchain for delivering customer value at scale
- Fully integrate Crusoe’s developer systems to keep our developers in the flow state, ruthlessly eliminating toil that slows us down
- Immerse yourself in the developer experience so that you can identify and eliminate pain points
- Create libraries, tools, and pre-production environments for vetting service APIs and interactions between microservices
- Unify both internal tooling and vendor services to automate, build efficiency, and optimize security
- Innovate across the development lifecycle from source code, editors, build, CI, CD, platform runtime environments, telemetry, optimizations, monitoring and alerting
- Establish a culture of continuous quality delivery that scales as Crusoe scales
- Work diligently to build quality, efficient systems and processes to increase the impact of engineers 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 $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
Insights
31% employee growth in 12 months
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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