Engineering Manager (Cloud Monitoring Services Platform)

Crusoe Energy Systems; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) match

Mental wellness support

Paid time off

Job summary

Crusoe Energy Systems, a pioneer in cloud infrastructure for AI workloads, seeks an Engineering Manager to lead the Platform team responsible for time series and log storage, and the query layer that supports dashboards, API calls, and investigations. You will manage 4–6 engineers, shaping strategy, delivery, and cost across fleet-scale telemetry.

You will guide technical direction with senior engineers, balance latency, retention, and cost, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to keep

Qualifications

• 2+ years managing software engineers directly, including owning performance cycles and career conversations.
• 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience in backend or distributed systems: databases, storage engines, query engines, or data pipelines.
• Experience with time series databases or columnar storage at scale: Prometheus, Thanos, Mimir, VictoriaMetrics, InfluxDB, ClickHouse, or similar.
• Experience with query engines and query cost control: planning, pushdown, caching, concurrency limits, and protecting a cluster from expensive queries.
• Familiarity with log storage and search systems: Loki, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Manage 4 to 6 engineers directly: 1:1s, career growth, performance, and team health.
• Own storage and query for time series and log data, including latency, retention, and cost tradeoffs.
• Plan and sequence work across a roadmap mixing customer-facing feature work with storage/infrastructure.
• Set technical direction with Staff engineers and collaborate with product and other teams.
• Maintain high operational standards for availability and query performance during incidents.

Skills

People management

Leadership

Communication

Strategic thinking

Tools

Kubernetes

Go

Rust

Java

C++

Job description

• Crusoe builds cloud infrastructure for AI workloads. Cloud Monitoring Services owns observability across Crusoe Cloud: metrics, logs, alerting, and the telemetry agent that runs on every node in the fleet. Our customers run large, demanding AI training and inference workloads, and they depend on us for a clear, trustworthy view of what their infrastructure is doing
• We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the Platform team: the time series and log storage systems, and the query layer that serves every dashboard, API call, and investigation on top of them. This is a first-line management role reporting to the Engineering Manager for Cloud Monitoring Services. You will take direct people management responsibility for a team of 4 to 6 engineers, growing, and own how telemetry is stored, retained, and read back at fleet scale
• This is a people-first leadership role with real delivery stakes. You will bring the technical depth to guide hard calls and earn your team’s trust, but your success is measured through what your team accomplishes. Query latency, retention, and storage cost are live tradeoffs your team will be making continuously, and customers feel all three directly. The role sits alongside peer managers who own telemetry collection and the ingestion pipeline, and together you run a platform that has to work end to end. This is a full-time position
• Grow and develop your team. Manage 4 to 6 engineers directly: 1:1s, career growth, performance, and team health, with the team growing over time
• Own storage and query. Be accountable for the time series and log storage systems and the query layer on top of them, including how they behave under load and how much they cost to run
• Own delivery. Plan and sequence work across a roadmap that mixes customer-facing feature work with storage and query infrastructure, and make honest calls early when a plan is at risk
• Set the technical direction for your area. Partner closely with the Staff engineers who own technical direction across the platform, so they can focus on engineering rather than absorbing delivery and handoff work alone. Ask the hard questions and make sound tradeoff calls alongside your engineers
• Keep the operational bar high. Query is on the critical path when something is wrong in the fleet, so availability, query performance, and correctness of what comes back are core to the job, not afterthoughts
• Own the team’s oncall rotation and the operational health of the storage and query stack
• Manage cost and scale together. Retention policy, downsampling, cardinality, and storage tiering are product decisions as much as engineering ones, and you will be in those conversations
• Coordinate across team boundaries. Your team consumes what the collection and ingestion teams produce and serves internal platform teams as well as external customers, so sequencing dependencies and escalating early is a core part of the job
• Shape the team over time. Work with recruiting on sourcing, run a high-quality interview loop, close strong candidates, and onboard them well
• Collaborate across functions. Partner with product, neighboring infrastructure teams, peer managers, and leadership to keep priorities aligned as the observability product expands

Benefits

• Health & wellbeing: Comprehensive health benefits designed to support your overall wellness
• Time away: Paid time off for vacations, family bonding, and unexpected needs
• 401(k) match: Build your financial future with our 401(k) matching program
• Mental wellness: Resources and support for your emotional wellbeing and navigating life’s challenges

Experience managing engineers. 2+ years managing software engineers directly, including owning performance cycles and career conversations. This team has an active roadmap and live customer commitments, so we are looking for someone who has run a team through delivery beforeA track record of shipping. You’ve delivered multi-phase projects against fixed deadlines, and you know how to keep infrastructure work moving alongside feature work rather than letting one crowd out the otherStrong communication and judgment. You can align people across functions, explain tradeoffs to technical and non-technical partners alike, and give your team clarity about what matters and whyTechnical depth. 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience, ideally in backend or distributed systems: databases, storage engines, query engines, streaming pipelines, or other data-intensive services (Go, Rust, Java, or C++ environments), and hands-on familiarity with Kubernetes. This role stays close to the technical workYou care about people. You want the engineers around you to grow, you give feedback that’s both direct and kind, and you measure your own success through your team’sOperational judgment. You’ve run a team that owns a system customers depend on during an incident, and you know what it takes to keep that system trustworthyExperience coaching senior and staff-level engineers, and comfort partnering with strong technical leads rather than competing with themWe know great engineers and leaders come from many different paths. If you’re excited about this work but don’t match every point below, we’d still love to hear from youExperience with time series databases or columnar storage at scale: Prometheus, Thanos, Mimir, VictoriaMetrics, InfluxDB, ClickHouse, or similarExperience with query engines and query cost control: planning, pushdown, caching, concurrency limits, and protecting a cluster from expensive queriesExperience with retention, compaction, downsampling, and storage tiering for large telemetry or event datasetsFamiliarity with log storage and search systems: Loki, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or similarObservability domain experience: OpenTelemetry, Grafana, metrics and log pipelines, cardinality managementExperience owning multi-tenant systems with per-tenant isolation, quotas, and fairnessExperience running software in GPU or accelerated computing environmentsExperience managing or scaling a team through growth