Software Engineer II, Crusoe Energy Systems
Managed Platform Services
$140-165k
+ RSUs & Bonus
Crusoe offers sponsorship
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
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Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$140-165k
+ RSUs & Bonus
Crusoe offers sponsorship
1001+ employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Cloud Expertise: Proven ability to design and scale fault-tolerant distributed systems and develop managed cloud services
- Technical Proficiency: Strong fundamentals in microservices and infrastructure technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD systems. Experience with observability principles and technologies, e.g., time-series databases, log aggregation, distributed tracing
- Customer-Centric Mindset: A passion for creating intuitive, high-quality solutions that directly impact customer success and satisfaction
- Collaboration Skills: Ability to work with cross-functional teams to align priorities and deliver customer-first solutions
- Communication Skills: Exceptional ability to articulate complex ideas and align technical solutions with customer needs
- Team Leadership: Mentor engineers, enhance hiring practices, and contribute to building a strong, inclusive engineering culture
- Professional Experience: 3-5 years of software development experience, including programming with modern compiled languages such as Go, Rust, Java, or C++
- Education: A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
What the job involves
- We are seeking talented Software Engineers to design, build, and scale Crusoe Cloud’s customer-facing platforms and managed services. Your work will focus on delivering a world-class customer experience, empowering users to unlock the full potential of Crusoe Cloud through innovative and reliable cloud products. This is a full-time position
- Building Foundational Infrastructure: Build and scale core infrastructure services that manage critical resources within our cloud platform. This involves designing, developing, and deploying robust and reliable systems from the ground up
- Scalable Design: Design highly scalable, durable, and reliable platform services that prioritize ease of use
- Cross Functional Collaboration: Lead projects that require collaborating with engineering, cloud support, site reliability, and product teams to assess tools, frameworks, and solutions that align with both customer and operational needs
- Innovation: Implement features that differentiate Crusoe Cloud, focusing on operational efficiency, low-touch adoption, turn-key AI services, and scalability
- Component ownership & refactoring: Own the end to end development and maintenance of specific software modules and service components. Proactively identify and execute refactoring opportunities to improve code modularity, readability, and long term maintainability
- Full lifecycle feature development: Design, develop, and deploy complex features that span the entire software development lifecycle. Translate high level business requirements into technical specifications, ensuring solutions are scalable and integrated seamlessly into the existing cloud architecture
- Architectural design for new features: Lead the design phase for new functionality by creating simple, elegant solutions for difficult technical problems. Utilize advanced knowledge of software design patterns to minimize system complexity and prevent technical debt
- Operational excellence & risk mitigation: Identify and mitigate visible technical risks and roadblocks within project workstreams. Enhance the team’s operational health by automating manual processes and improving monitoring, logging, and alerting systems for production services
- Advanced troubleshooting & root cause analysis: Independently diagnose and resolve intricate software failures and performance bottlenecks. Conduct root cause analysis on production incidents and implement systemic fixes to prevent recurrence across the component's lifecycle
- Mentorship & knowledge sharing: Accelerate the onboarding of new teammates by providing technical training on team-specific software and development processes. Act as a peer reviewer for code review, offering constructive feedback to ensure high quality output across the team
- Performance tuning & optimization: Analyze component level performance metrics to identify latency issues or resource inefficiencies. Implement optimizations in data handling and algorithm logic to ensure high availability and a seamless customer experience
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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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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