Crusoe · 10 hours ago
Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Storage
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$166K/yr - $201K/yr
5+ years expCrusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence, focusing on sustainable technology for AI. The Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Storage will ensure the performance and reliability of Crusoe’s cloud storage products, driving innovation in distributed storage systems to support AI and HPC workloads.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Data CenterEnergyEnergy ManagementOil and Gas
Responsibilities
Build automation and self-healing tools to monitor and maintain Crusoe’s distributed cloud storage infrastructure, which includes block, file, and object storage systems
Drive reliability initiatives focused on data replication, encryption, backup and restore strategies, and robust failover mechanisms
Collaborate closely with storage engineers to implement and maintain high-performance NVMe- and SSD-backed volumes that support large-scale AI compute clusters
Support user-facing storage services with a focus on availability, performance tuning, and adherence to error budgets
Investigate and resolve storage-related incidents using deep telemetry, logs, and performance profiling
Partner with hardware and kernel teams to diagnose low-level I/O issues and optimize I/O paths, cache policies, and file systems
Contribute to the architecture of fault-tolerant, scalable storage backends tailored for AI-first cloud environments
Qualification
Required
5+ years of professional experience in SRE, systems, or storage engineering
Hands-on experience with distributed storage systems (e.g., Ceph, GlusterFS, OpenEBS) and deep understanding of object, block, and file storage paradigms
Proficiency in a programming language such as Python, Go, Java, or C
Experience with Infrastructure as Code and deployment tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet
Deep knowledge of Linux internals with a focus on I/O subsystems, memory management, and storage scheduling
Familiarity with storage protocols like NFS, SMB, iSCSI, or NVMe-oF
Strong experience working with containerized workloads and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker)
Excellent incident response, troubleshooting, and documentation practices
Experience with building and operating managed services at scale such as object, file and block storage (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Excellent communication skills
Must be able to pass a background check
Embody the Company values
Preferred
Contributions to open-source storage projects or the Linux storage stack
Experience with hybrid storage models across on-prem and cloud environments
Familiarity with high-throughput network topologies for storage backplanes (e.g., RoCE, RDMA, InfiniBand)
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
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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.
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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