Staff Software Engineer, Crusoe Energy Systems
Systems Engineering Focus
$210-255k
+ Bonus + Restricted Stock Units
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Open for applications
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$210-255k
+ Bonus + Restricted Stock Units
1001+ employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Systems Programming Expertise: Strong proficiency in Python, Go, and/or Shell scripting, with comfort working across languages as the problem demands
- Linux Kernel Metrics: Experience instrumenting low-level system metrics. Comfort working at the procfs level
- Kubernetes & Helm: Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals and experience packaging and deploying workloads via Helm charts
- Operational Mindset: On-call experience on a customer-facing team is required. You proactively identify gaps in monitoring, alerting, and tooling — and close them
- Reliability-First Engineering: You design for crash safety, low resource footprint, and graceful degradation. You think about what happens when things go wrong before writing a line of code
- Scalable Design Thinking: You plan how systems evolve under traffic growth. You consider resiliency, HA, and disaster recovery from the start
- Staff-Level Impact: You lead cross-domain efforts, own team architecture, and coach multiple engineers across and beyond your team. You identify one-way door decisions, proactively drive solutions without being asked, and introduce frameworks that uplevel the group without requiring your direct involvement. You have a healthy bias to action — you bring solutions, not just problems
- Communication: Concise, proactive, and anticipates blockers. Keeps stakeholders informed without needing to be asked
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design, build, and scale Crusoe Cloud's customer-facing managed services
- The Managed Platform Services team owns and operates multiple customer-facing products, with an active and growing roadmap
- This is a full software engineering role — you'll ship customer-facing features, build systems from 0 to 1, and scale existing services alongside a team of strong generalist engineers
- What sets you apart is your systems programming expertise, which you'll bring as a technical authority on our Edge & Agents domain: the software that runs directly on customer infrastructure
- This agent code is mission-critical — a failure here is a customer production incident
- You'll provide deeper technical oversight on existing, inflight, and planned edge systems while contributing broadly across the platform
- Customer-Facing Feature Development: Build and scale core platform services end-to-end — from greenfield 0-to-1 projects to scaling systems handling growing production traffic
- Edge & Agents Technical Oversight: Serve as the team's subject matter expert on edge software. Review existing agent architectures, provide technical guidance on inflight designs, and shape how we build and operate software at the system level
- Edge Agent Development: Build and maintain lightweight, high-reliability agents deployed on customer VMs. Minimize CPU/memory footprint without sacrificing observability coverage
- Linux Kernel Metrics & eBPF: Instrument low-level system metrics using eBPF and procfs to power Crusoe's monitoring and telemetry pipeline
- Packaging & Distribution: Own agent packaging and deployment via Helm charts, ensuring smooth delivery across customer environments
- Pull-Based Scraping Architecture: Design and evolve the "pull" scraping logic that collects metrics from customer infrastructure with minimal operational overhead
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Control Plane, Storage, and SRE teams to ensure agent data feeds are reliable, well-structured, and operationally sound
- Cross-Team Bridge: Serve as the technical bridge between the Managed Platform Services team and adjacent infrastructure teams — including SRE and Compute — who work on the cloud hypervisor and lower-level platform layers. Build enough expertise in their domains to collaborate effectively, represent your team's requirements clearly, and influence decisions that affect the edge agent stack
- Technical Leadership: Set patterns and frameworks adopted across the team. Mentor senior engineers, contribute to architecture decisions, and help scope quarterly roadmap items with engineering and product leadership
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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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
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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