Software Engineer, Crusoe Energy Systems
Control Plane
$136-160.5k
+ RSUs + Bonus
Crusoe offers sponsorship
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
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Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$136-160.5k
+ RSUs + Bonus
Crusoe offers sponsorship
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Feature Implementation: Write high-quality, production-ready code in Go to handle resource state transitions and API orchestration
- Design for Reliability: Contribute to design docs for multi-region control plane services, focusing on edge cases and failure modes
- Scaling & Optimization: Help identify and resolve bottlenecks in our resource orchestration layer using tools like Kubernetes, Go, and Postgres
- Production Support: Work alongside SREs to investigate production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes to harden our environment
- 3+ years of software development experience with proficiency in a modern compiled language—Go is highly preferred, but Rust or C++ are also valued
- Experience building and deploying distributed systems or managed cloud services in a production environment
- Working knowledge of the modern infrastructure stack, including Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and Postgres
- A solid understanding of how cloud resources (Compute, Network, Storage) are abstracted and managed
- A "product-minded" approach to engineering, with the ability to understand how technical decisions impact the end-user experience
- Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical trade-offs within your immediate team
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Software Engineer, Control Plane to help build and scale the next generation of Crusoe Cloud’s Control Plane
- As a member of the Compute team, you will contribute to the high-availability systems that manage our global fleet of AI-optimized compute, network, and storage resources
- In this role, you will transition from executing defined tasks to taking ownership of specific services and features within our IaaS platform
- You will ensure that as Crusoe scales to meet massive AI demand, our control plane remains fault-tolerant, performant, and seamlessly integrated with our underlying high-performance hardware
- Develop and Maintain Microservices: Build and optimize the scalable services that power the Crusoe Cloud control plane and manage complex virtualized resource lifecycles
- Implement IaaS Primitives: Contribute to the backend logic that ensures high throughput and low-latency API responses for large-scale cluster provisioning
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Networking, and Storage teams to implement features that create differentiated cloud solutions for AI/ML customers
- Operational Excellence: Improve the observability, testing coverage, and reliability of our distributed systems through clean code and robust CI/CD practices
- Technical Growth: Participate in rigorous design reviews, contribute to team documentation, and help onboard new engineers to the team’s codebase
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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