Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Crusoe Energy Systems
Observability
$172-253k
+ RSUs and bonus
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Be an early applicant
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$172-253k
+ RSUs and bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a highly skilled engineer with deep expertise in building and operating observability platforms at scale
- 6+ years of experience with distributed systems, with a focus on observability and monitoring systems
- Deep expertise with metrics systems (Prometheus, Thanos, Mimir, Cortex), logging pipelines (Fluent Bit, Vector, Loki, ELK/Opensearch), and tracing platforms (Jaeger, Tempo, OpenTelemetry)
- Strong programming skills in Go or Python for automation, operators, and custom integrations
- Experience running observability platforms on Kubernetes and operating them at scale across multi-datacenter environments
- Proven ability to design, optimize, and scale telemetry pipelines handling high cardinality and high throughput data
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, performance engineering, and debugging complex workloads
- Familiarity with service meshes, networking, and workload instrumentation (Envoy, Istio, OpenTelemetry SDKs)
- Strong collaboration skills and the ability to influence engineering teams to adopt observability best practices
What the job involves
- As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Observability, you be supporting our team of Network Engineers (no network engineering experience required)
- The Crusoe Cloud Network Engineering Team is responsible for designing, building, and operating the global edge, backbone, and data center network for High Performance Compute (HPC) Clusters with GPUs
- This is a unique opportunity wherein you'll be building an observability platform specific to devices; one that is language agnostic and scalable
- You will design, develop, and run Crusoe’s next-generation observability stack, enabling engineers to understand the internal state of distributed systems through metrics, logs, and traces
- This role will be designing and operating scalable observability systems (metrics, logging, tracing) across multi-datacenter Kubernetes environments
- Architecting end-to-end telemetry pipelines, including ingestion, storage, querying, and visualization
- Extending monitoring and alerting with Prometheus, Alertmanager, Thanos/Cortex, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
- Building scalable log collection and processing pipelines with Fluent Bit, Vector, Loki, or ELK/Opensearch stacks
- Implementing distributed tracing platforms (Tempo, Jaeger, OpenTelemetry) and integrating with service meshes, load balancers, and APIs
- Defining and driving adoption of SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets across services and teams
- Automating provisioning and scaling of observability infrastructure with Kubernetes, Terraform, and custom tooling (Go, Python)
- Ensuring reliability and cost efficiency of telemetry pipelines while supporting high-volume workloads (AI/ML, HPC clusters, GPU infrastructure)
- Embedding security best practices into observability platforms, including RBAC, TLS, secret management, and multi-tenant access controls
- Mentoring engineers and shaping Crusoe’s observability strategy and technical roadmap
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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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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