Crusoe · 1 week ago
Staff Software Engineer, Crusoe Container Registry
Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company building energy and cloud infrastructure to power ambitious AI workloads. The Staff Software Engineer will own the technical direction, scaling roadmap, performance, reliability, and maintainability of Crusoe Cloud's container registry, while delivering production changes, influencing adjacent teams, and mentoring engineers.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingEnergyAI InfrastructureData CenterEnergy Management
H1B Sponsor LikelyTop InvestorsUnicorn with $30.9B valuation
Responsibilities
Own the technical direction: Set the architecture and scaling roadmap for Crusoe Cloud's container registry. Establish the patterns and standards the team builds against, and stay accountable for scalability, reliability, and maintainability over the long haul
Ship end-to-end: Drive high impact changes from design through production, and stay accountable for their scalability, reliability and maintainability
Push performance limits: Drive performance strategy across the system and get ahead of demand curves before they reach customers. Make the architecture tradeoffs that keep the registry dependable as it grows
Multiply the team: Raise the team's technical bar through architecture, design, and code review, and through mentorship, while staying hands-on on complex challenges. Make the engineers around you more effective, not just yourself
Drive technical strategy across teams: Influence designs across adjacent teams, align with product and other partners on priorities and tradeoffs, and lead the technical response when things break
Qualification
Required
• Distributed systems at scale: You have proven success designing, scaling, and hardening distributed systems, all while keeping them reliable under high-load production environments
• A performance-driven mindset: You set performance strategy and have deep, practical experience profiling, benchmarking, and optimizing distributed systems, with sound judgment about latency, throughput, caching, and resource tradeoffs at scale
• Thrive in ambiguity: You thrive on transforming ambiguous performance problems into measured action and durable fixes. You work ahead of demand, identifying constraints before they reach customers
• A track record of system level ownership: You've owned critical systems from design through production and carried them through operational pressure. You've made difficult calls under conflicting requirements and visible risk, and stood behind them
• A customer-centric mindset: You keep the customers top of mind, and you can translate their needs into actionable changes in the codebase
• Technical & infrastructure proficiency: You havestrong fundamentals in microservices and cloud-native infrastructure technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) alongside languages like Go, Rust, Java, or C++
• Collaboration and communication: You are comfortable working across functions to align on priorities and to explain technical tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical partners alike
• Mentorship and force multiplication: You've grown other engineers. You've mentored teammates on the team's systems, helped newer engineers find their footing, raised the team's technical bar, and contributed to hiring
• Experience: You have8+ years of professional software development experience, including time spent building and operating distributed systems but we care more about what you've built than the exact number
Preferred
• Familiarity with the OCI image and distribution specs
• Experience building container registry products
• Experience with storage or caching systems at scale
Benefits
Equity packages
Restricted Stock Units
Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
Employer contributions to HSA account
Paid parental leave
Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
Professional development & tuition reimbursement
Mental health & wellness support
Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
Cell phone stipend
401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
Volunteer time off
Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
Daily meals allowance
Additional perks & programs specific to location
Bonus
Company
Crusoe
Energy-first AI infrastructure and cloud compute provider.
H1B Sponsorship
Crusoe has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
92%
Represents job field similar to this job
Engineering and Development
Product Management
Trends of Total Sponsorships
*2026 (13)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$8.1BKey Investors
Atreides Management,Mubadala Capital,Valor Equity PartnersGoldman SachsMubadala Capital,Valor Equity Partners
2026-09-03Series F· $3.9B
2026-02-20Debt Financing· $300M
2025-10-23Series E· $1.4B
Leadership Team
Chase Lochmiller
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Cully Cavness
Co-Founder, President and Chief Strategy Officer
Recent News
2026-10-07
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