Senior Software Engineer, Storage

Cruose's mission is to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. We’re crafting the engine that powers a world where people can create ambitiously with AI — without sacrificing scale, speed, or sustainability.

Be part of the AI revolution with sustainable technology at Crusoe. Here, you'll drive meaningful innovation, make a tangible impact, and join a team that’s setting the pace for responsible, transformative cloud infrastructure.

About This Role :

As a Senior Software Engineer on our storage team, you'll be joining our core engineering team to design, build, and optimize our next-generation cloud storage products. We're looking for a hands-on engineer with deep expertise in building storage systems. You will be responsible for building highly performant, reliable, and scalable distributed storage systems that are critical to our infrastructure and our customers' AI / HPC workloads.

What You’ll Be Working On :

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

System Design & Architecture

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

High Velocity Problem Solving

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

Cross-functional Collaboration

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

You’ll Bring to the Team :

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

Bonus Points :

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; $200 per month

Compensation :

Compensation will be paid in the range of $166,000 - $201,000. 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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