Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Crusoe Energy Systems
Storage
$212.5-250k
+ Restricted Stock Units in a fast growing, well-funded technology company; + Bonus
Crusoe offers sponsorship
Clean computing infrastructure
Open for applications
Clean computing infrastructure
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$212.5-250k
+ Restricted Stock Units in a fast growing, well-funded technology company; + Bonus
Crusoe offers sponsorship
201-500 employees
Company mission
To align the future of computing with the future of the climate.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of professional experience in Storage SRE, systems, or storage engineering
- Hands-on experience with distributed storage systems (e.g., Ceph, GlusterFS, OpenEBS) and deep understanding of object, block, and file storage paradigms
- Proficiency in a programming language such as Python, Go, Java, or C
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and deployment tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet
- Deep knowledge of Linux internals with a focus on I/O subsystems, memory management, and storage scheduling
- Familiarity with storage protocols like NFS, SMB, iSCSI, or NVMe-oF
- Strong experience working with containerized workloads and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker)
- Excellent incident response, troubleshooting, and documentation practices
- Excellent communication skills
- Must be able to pass a background check
- Embody the Company values
What the job involves
- At Crusoe Energy Systems, our Infrastructure & Product Engineering team plays a mission-critical role in maintaining the performance and reliability of our AI-optimized cloud infrastructure
- The Storage-focused Cloud Infrastructure Engineer role is responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, and scalability of Crusoe’s cloud storage products and services, which power compute-intensive, latency-sensitive workloads for AI and HPC use cases
- This role directly supports our vertically integrated, sustainable cloud platform by building and optimizing distributed, fault-tolerant storage systems at scale
- In this role, you will build automation and self-healing tools to monitor and maintain Crusoe’s distributed cloud storage infrastructure, which includes block, file, and object storage systems
- You will drive reliability initiatives focused on data replication, encryption, backup and restore strategies, and robust failover mechanisms
- Collaborating closely with storage engineers, you will help implement and maintain high-performance NVMe- and SSD-backed volumes that support large-scale AI compute clusters
- Your responsibilities will also include supporting user-facing storage services with a focus on availability, performance tuning, and adherence to error budgets
- You’ll investigate and resolve storage-related incidents using deep telemetry, logs, and performance profiling, while also partnering with hardware and kernel teams to diagnose low-level I/O issues and optimize I/O paths, cache policies, and file systems
- Additionally, you will contribute to the architecture of fault-tolerant, scalable storage backends tailored for AI-first cloud environments
Our take
Methane, that is mostly generated by flaring in the oil and gas industry, is a major contributor to global warming - as are the carbon emissions produced by global computing (especially bitcoin mining.) Crusoe Energy Systems reduces flaring, and repurposes waste natural gas into energy for these processes, thus removing methane from the atmosphere and simultaneously reducing the carbon footprint of computing.
Crusoe's mobile data centers can be deployed to generate power from methane waste at its source. As well as its patented Digital Flare Mitigation system, Crusoe is also working to enable alternative revenue streams for renewable and clean energy projects, with the ultimate aim to run data centers on renewable energy.
The company has connections with Kraken Oil & Gas, Devon Energy, Enerplus, and more; and its computing power is used by institutes such as MIT. The rising pressure to take action on climate change, coupled with the need for high-energy computing as more infrastructure moves online, has placed it in a massive industry. With the capability of its systems to reduce the equivalent of 8,000 tonnes per year of CO2 and 2023 debt financing amounting to $200 million in investment, Crusoe Energy Systems is well positioned to make an impact and drive for further success.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
31% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2024
$600m
SERIES D
Apr 2022
$350m
SERIES C
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Stock options in a fast-growing, well-funded technology company
- Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
- Teladoc
- 401(k) with a 4% match
- Unlimited time off
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Tuition reimbursement
- Subscription to the Calm app
- Company paid commuter benefit; $100 per month
- Pet-friendly offices
Company HQ
LoDo, Denver, CO
Leadership
Cully Cavness
(President & COO)Started 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.
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