Senior Staff Software Engineer, Crusoe Energy Systems
Managed Platform Services
$250-300k
+ Restricted Stock Units + bonus
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Open for applications
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$250-300k
+ Restricted Stock Units + bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Distributed Systems Depth: Deep, hands-on expertise designing and operating distributed systems at scale — sharding, replication, consensus, load balancing, and concurrency. You’ve resolved the hard problems, not just read about them
- Performance Engineering: Proven track record of impact at the staff level and above. Proficiency in Go or a modern compiled language (Go strongly preferred). You benchmark, you profile, you fix — and you build the culture around doing it right
- Operational Leadership: On-call experience on a customer-facing team is required. You don’t just respond to incidents — you eliminate the conditions that cause them. You’ve built runbooks, tuned alerts, and reduced noise systematically
- Cross-Functional Impact: Proven ability to influence technical decisions made by other teams. You’ve resolved root causes of endemic problems that span org boundaries, and you have the credibility to do it again
- Roadmap Collaboration: Experience working directly with product and engineering leadership to scope ambiguous problems, plan incremental delivery, and tie technical decisions to business outcomes
- Mentorship at Scale: You don’t just mentor — you build systems that make other engineers better without your direct involvement. Force multiplication is your default mode
- Ownership: A strong sense of ownership and accountability — proactive, solutions-oriented, and willing to go wherever the team needs depth most. You’re not a domain owner; you’re a platform owner
- Culture: Enthusiastic, optimistic, and genuine in celebrating others’ wins. You create an environment where people do their best work, maintain responsiveness that sets the team’s reputation, and lead by example
- Communication: Exemplary. You provide the right level of context, stay concise, check for understanding, and keep leaders and stakeholders informed without being asked
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Sr Staff Software Engineer to anchor distributed systems depth across Crusoe Cloud’s Managed Platform Services organization. This is a floating technical leadership role — not tied to a single domain or product — operating at the highest level of individual contribution on the team
- You’ll own performance engineering and operational excellence across all org domains, ensuring every layer of the stack is architected for 10x scale without accumulating technical debt or growing dependency on adjacent infrastructure teams. This is a full-time position
- Performance Engineering — Platform-Wide: Own performance at the platform level. Establish consistent benchmarks across all domains, identify systemic bottlenecks before they become incidents, and drive solutions that scale. You’re the person who sees the thundering herd problem, the sharding gap, the concurrency issue — and owns it through resolution
- Resiliency & Long-Term Architecture: Ensure every platform domain is architected for long-term scale — HA, disaster recovery, graceful degradation, and fault isolation built in from the start, not bolted on after the fact. Identify one-way door decisions early and make sure the team doesn’t commit without full context
- Operational Excellence: Set the standard for how the team operates at scale. Drive down on-call noise, automate anything done more than once, and build shared patterns and frameworks that let the entire team ship faster with less friction. You’ve been on a customer-facing on-call rotation and lead by example
- Cross-Domain Technical Leadership: Float across platform domains as the team’s senior distributed systems authority. Provide oversight on existing, inflight, and planned systems. Contribute to technical decisions across Control Plane, Storage & State, Edge & Agents, Data Pipeline, and Async & Metering without needing to own any single one
- Cross-Team Influence: Serve as a senior technical voice in conversations with adjacent infrastructure teams — Compute, Managed Orchestration, Networking — ensuring platform-level decisions are made with full context. Build credibility across org boundaries to influence outcomes that affect the broader platform
- Roadmap & Product Collaboration: Engage directly with product and engineering leadership in the earliest, most ambiguous stages of scoping. Help define quarterly roadmaps, surface incremental milestones, and ensure technical decisions are tied to business outcomes
- Mentorship & Culture: Actively coach senior engineers. Introduce systems and frameworks that uplevel the entire team without requiring your direct involvement. Identify early signs of burnout, create an environment where it’s safe to fail, and set the team’s reputation for being collaborative, responsive, and excellent
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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