Crusoe · 1 week ago
Senior Software Engineer, Storage
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$166K/yr - $201K/yrCrusoe's mission is to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As a Senior Software Engineer on the storage team, you'll design, build, and optimize next-generation cloud storage products critical for AI and HPC workloads.
AI InfrastructureArtificial Intelligence (AI)Data CenterEnergyEnergy ManagementOil and Gas
Responsibilities
Building Our Multi-Petabyte Cloud Storage Platform
Building core components of our foundational storage products, purpose built for high performance AI and ML workloads
Contributing to distributed file, block and object storage products, with a focus on filesystem based solutions
Design and implement high-performance, scalable, and resilient storage architectures that are highly extensible
Proposing and prototyping novel strategies to scale performance and system throughput for our most demanding customer workloads
Building observability, metrics and tooling for our services and fleet
Troubleshooting and resolving unique and complex distributed systems problems only seen at the scale we operate at
Provide ongoing support for production systems, and customer workloads including troubleshooting, performance tuning, and incident response
Foster strong collaboration with other engineering teams (e.g., Software Infrastructure, Product) and cross-functional departments
Single threaded ownership and representation of the storage team in business critical initiatives across the company
Qualification
Required
Hands-on proficiency in modern software development best practices, and practical experience in languages like Go, Java, C/C++, or Rust
Extensive experience developing multi-tenant, cloud scale distributed storage infrastructure software and systems
Experience contributing to at least one or more of the following storage products: File (e.g., NFS, SMB, Lustre), Object, or Block Storage (e.g., NVMe, iSCSI)
A strong background in high performance filesystem based products, VFS and linux filesystems (e.g., ext4, XFS, ZFS)
Proficiency working with Linux and its storage subsystems
Knowledge of monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana), log analysis, distributed tracing and debugging
Preferred
Experience with AI/HPC storage solutions, such as Parallel Filesystems or petabyte+ scale Object Storage
Familiarity with networking technologies like RDMA and Infiniband
Familiarity with modern storage technologies (e.g GPU Direct Storage, F2FS, SPDK etc)
Prior experience with Nvidia SuperNIC DPUs for storage optimization
Prior experience in Storage Virtualization & Orchestration, volume placement strategies and distributed metadata management
Research publications or open-source contributions to storage-related projects
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
Company
Crusoe
Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that builds and operates data centers powered by energy sources.
Founded in 2018
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$3.9BKey Investors
Victory Park CapitalBrookfield Asset ManagementUpper90
2025-12-19Secondary Market
2025-10-23Series E· $1.4B
2025-08-25Debt Financing· $175M
Leadership Team
Chase Lochmiller
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Cully Cavness
Co-Founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer
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