Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Crusoe Energy Systems
$172-209k
+ Bonus + RSUs
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
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Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$172-209k
+ Bonus + RSUs
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- 5–8+ years operating large-scale production workloads on Google Cloud Platform
- Deep knowledge of GCE, GKE, VPC networking, load balancers, firewall rules, interconnect, and GCS
- Strong Terraform experience and a track record of building automated multi-environment infrastructure
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes internals, workload orchestration, scaling, and observability
- Ability to debug complex distributed systems across compute, storage, and network boundaries
- Strong cloud security fundamentals, including least privilege, secrets management, and policy enforcement
- Proficiency with Python, Go, or Shell for automation and tooling
- Experience influencing design decisions and partnering with cross-functional teams
Desirable
- Experience supporting high-performance or AI/ML workloads in GCP
- Familiarity with Anthos, service mesh, or multi-cluster Kubernetes operations
- Background in hybrid or multi-cloud infrastructure
- Strong SRE fundamentals including SLOs, incident response, and postmortems
- Experience with Spanner, BigQuery, Bigtable, or large-scale data platforms
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate the core cloud foundation that powers our AI-first compute environment
- You’ll own the reliability, scalability, and automation of our Google Cloud Platform footprint and build the guardrails, tooling, and infrastructure that enable engineering teams to move quickly while maintaining strong security and operational excellence
- Design, build, and manage core cloud infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and IAM
- Architect and operate GCE, GKE, and serverless workloads (Cloud Run/Functions) for scale and reliability
- Own VPC design, routing, load balancers, interconnects, peering, and network security boundaries
- Develop and maintain Terraform modules to define automated, auditable, and secure cloud environments
- Implement policies and guardrails across IAM, resource hierarchy, service accounts, and VPC-SC
- Build automation for provisioning, lifecycle management, and blue/green or canary deploy patterns
- Partner closely with security and platform teams on monitoring, logging, compliance, and operational readiness
- Optimize cloud costs, quotas, and capacity planning across multiple projects and regions
- Troubleshoot complex production issues across compute, storage, and networking layers
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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