United States
Senior Software Engineer - Platform Engineering
Crusoe · United States
- Contract
- Full time
- Occupation
- Software Engineer
Advertised in 3 locations:
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Sunnyvale, California, United States
- Seattle, WA, US
Posted: 11/2/2026 · Last checked: 11/10/2026
Job description
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Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.
We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.
We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.
If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.
About the Role
Crusoe's Platform Engineering team builds the services that automate how we manage our cloud fleet. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design and ship modular microservices on top of our underlying infrastructure, turning stakeholder requirements into platform capabilities that directly drive feature delivery and revenue.
What You'll Be Working On
Design, build, and operate microservices that automate fleet provisioning, lifecycle, and capacity management
Extend existing platform services with new features that directly drive customer-facing delivery
Turn ambiguous stakeholder requirements into clear, modular designs and drive them to production
Build on GCP and managed Kubernetes, working closely with infrastructure and cross-functional teams
Own the reliability and observability of the services you ship
What You'll Bring to the Team
5+ years building and operating production backend or platform services
Strong proficiency in at least one backend language such as Go, Python, Java, or C#
Experience designing microservices and APIs (gRPC/REST) in distributed systems
Hands-on experience with Postgres and event-driven systems such as Kafka
A track record of leading projects end-to-end and raising the bar for engineers around you
Bonus Points
Experience building on GCP, AWS, or managed Kubernetes
Capacity management or fleet/hardware lifecycle experience
Neocloud or GPU cloud infrastructure experience
Experience with Go
Observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana)
Benefits
Industry competitive pay
Restricted Stock Units in a fast growing, well-funded technology company
Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents
Employer contributions to HSA accounts
Paid Parental Leave
Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
Teladoc
401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary
Generous paid time off and holiday schedule
Cell phone reimbursement
Tuition reimbursement
Subscription to the Calm app
MetLife Legal
Company paid commuter benefit; $300 per month
Compensation
Compensation will be paid in the range of $170,000 - $205,000. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.
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