Staff Production Engineer, Crusoe Energy Systems
Storage
$209-253k
+ Restricted Stock Units + Bonus
Crusoe offers sponsorship
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Open for applications
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$209-253k
+ Restricted Stock Units + Bonus
Crusoe offers sponsorship
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of professional experience in Storage SRE, Production Engineering, Systems Engineering, Storage Engineering, or similar roles
- 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 Go, Python, Java, or C
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and deployment tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet
- Deep knowledge of Linux internals, particularly I/O subsystems, memory management, and storage scheduling
- Familiarity with storage protocols such as NFS, SMB, iSCSI, or NVMe-oF
- Strong experience working with containerized workloads and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Excellent incident response, troubleshooting, and documentation practices
- Experience building and operating large-scale managed storage services (object, file, or block storage) across AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Strong communication and cross-team collaboration skills
- Ability to pass a background check
- Embody the company values
What the job involves
- At Crusoe Energy Systems, our Production Engineering team plays a mission-critical role in maintaining the performance, reliability, and scalability of our AI-optimized cloud infrastructure
- As a Staff Storage Production Engineer, you will help lead the design, operation, and evolution of the storage systems that power Crusoe’s compute-intensive AI and HPC workloads
- This role focuses on ensuring the availability, performance, and resilience of Crusoe’s cloud storage platform while driving long-term improvements in automation, reliability, and system architecture
- You will work across infrastructure, storage, and platform teams to build and operate distributed, fault-tolerant storage systems at scale
- Your work will directly support Crusoe’s vertically integrated, sustainable cloud platform by enabling high-performance storage solutions for large-scale GPU clusters and latency-sensitive AI workloads
- In this role, you will design and build automation and self-healing systems that improve the reliability and operability of Crusoe’s distributed cloud storage infrastructure, including block, file, and object storage systems
- You will drive reliability initiatives focused on data replication, encryption, backup and restore strategies, and robust failover mechanisms across large-scale production environments
- Working closely with storage and infrastructure engineers, you will help deploy and operate high-performance NVMe- and SSD-backed volumes that support large-scale AI compute clusters
- You will also improve the reliability and performance of user-facing storage services by driving improvements in availability, performance tuning, and adherence to SLOs and error budgets
- As a Staff engineer, you will contribute to the long-term architecture of Crusoe’s storage platform, influencing the design of scalable and fault-tolerant storage backends tailored for AI-first cloud environments
- You will lead complex incident investigations using deep telemetry, logs, and performance analysis, while partnering with hardware and kernel teams to diagnose low-level I/O issues and optimize I/O paths, cache policies, and file systems
- You will also help drive operational best practices, reliability strategy, and automation across the storage platform
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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