Senior Staff Software Engineer, Crusoe Energy Systems
Billing Platform
$250-300k
+ Bonus + Restricted Stock Units
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Open for applications
Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$250-300k
+ Bonus + Restricted Stock Units
1001+ employees
Company mission
To accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Billing Systems Experience: Extensive track record building and operating mission-critical billing, payments, high-throughput metering, or financial ledger systems (or similarly complex, high-integrity distributed data platforms)
- Strong Ownership Mindset: Proven ability to own multi-year technical vision and complex systems end-to-end, with an uncompromised focus on correctness, reliability , and long-term maintainability
- Professional Experience: 9+ years of software engineering experience designing distributed backend systems using languages such as Go, Java, Rust, or C++
- Distributed Systems Expertise: Expertise designing and scaling fault-tolerant, low-latency distributed systems with strong data consistency guarantees, idempotency patterns, and immutable ledger architectures
- Data & Processing Knowledge: Familiarity with real-time and batch data processing, event-driven architectures, and data modeling for financial systems
- Cross-Functional & Executive Collaboration: Proven ability to work closely with Product, Finance, and non-technical stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical capabilities.
- Attention to Detail & Financial Integrity: Rigorous focus on financial correctness, edge cases, SOX compliance/auditability, and building safeguards to prevent revenue leakage
- Observability & Reliability: Experience establishing robust observability, automated reconciliation, and alerting frameworks across high-volume distributed environments
- Technical Leadership & Mentorship: History of setting engineering standards, leading architecture review boards and mentoring Senior and Staff engineers to elevate overall organizational capability
- Communication Skills: Exceptional ability to articulate complex architectural trade-offs, system constraints, and strategic roadmaps to both technical teams and executive non-technical stakeholders
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for our Billing team to design, build, and scale Crusoe Cloud’s billing platform. This role sits within the Cloud Customer Experience (CCX) organization and is critical to enabling accurate, transparent, and reliable billing for our customers
- You will own core billing systems end-to-end, from metering and pricing to invoicing and payments, ensuring they are highly reliable, scalable, and easy to understand. This role requires deep collaboration with Product, Finance, Customer Success, and other engineering teams to deliver a seamless and trustworthy billing experience
- Own Critical Systems: Lead the design and operation of highly reliable billing services that directly safeguard revenue, eliminate data leakage, and maintain customer trust
- Drive Architectural Vision & Strategy: Own the multi-year technical roadmap for Crusoe Cloud’s billing platform, designing high-throughput metering, pricing, and invoicing architectures that scale with growing AI compute workloads
- Drive Accuracy & Transparency at Scale: Architect real-time and batch usage processing pipelines, immutable ledger models, and automated reconciliation engines to ensure absolute financial correctness and auditability
- Partner Cross-Functionally: Work closely with Finance, Product, Customer Success, and Support teams to align and translate complex enterprise pricing, commitment models, and business strategies into resilient platform capabilities
- Enable New Business Models: Architect flexible, extensible billing capabilities and platform primitives to support rapidly evolving cloud offerings, dynamic pricing, and enterprise commitments
- Mitigate Systemic Risk & Improve Reliability: Establish robust safeguards, transaction standards, and automated verification workflows to proactively detect, isolate, and prevent billing discrepancies
- Drive Observability & Correctness: Elevate system observability, end-to-end reconciliation processes, and fault-tolerant error handling to guarantee billing state consistency across distributed systems
- Mentor and Lead: Set architectural practices, drive architecture reviews, and mentor Senior and Staff engineers across the organization to build a high-performing engineering culture around financial data
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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