Hyperscale Data Center Network Architect

Crusoe; United States; On-site; USD 250,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity/RSUs

Paid time off and holidays

Comprehensive health, dental & vision

HSA contributions

Parental leave

401(k) with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Wellness programs

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Crusoe is seeking a Senior Staff Network Architect to define and evolve network architecture across our hyperscale infrastructure. You will design spine-leaf data center fabrics, RDMA interconnects, and SDN control planes, while pushing IBN and GitOps-driven provisioning.

Join a high-impact team driving Crusoe's AI infrastructure at scale. You will mentor engineers, develop authoritative data models, and collaborate with software and operations to implement architectures that power tomorrow's AI

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive network engineering experience, including design leadership.
• Experience designing or operating 1000+ switches across multi-site environments.
• Strong routing knowledge: BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, OSPF, ECMP, BFD.
• SDN and programmability with NETCONF/YANG, RESTCONF, or gNMI.
• Kubernetes networking with CNI selection and network policies.
• RDMA/HPC networking familiarity (RoCEv2, InfiniBand).
• Software engineering fundamentals with IaC tooling and version control.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to align stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve network architecture for Crusoe's data centers and inter-site connectivity.
• Build IBN frameworks translating goals into device configurations.
• Implement GitOps network provisioning and automated validation pipelines.
• Contribute to SoT with authoritative data models (IPAM, DCIM, CMDB).
• Develop day-0/1/2 automation using Ansible, Nornir, Terraform.
• Implement streaming telemetry (gNMI/gRPC) and closed-loop remediation.
• Raise engineering standards with design documents and architecture reviews.
• Mentor mid-level and senior network engineers; collaborate with software teams.

Skills

Senior Network Engineer

Large-Scale DC Networking

Routing (BGP/EVPN/VXLAN)

SDN & Programmability

Kubernetes Networking

RDMA & HPC Networking

Git, CI/CD

IaC (Terraform, Ansible, Nornir)

Networking Automation

Communication & Collaboration

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Terraform

Ansible

Nornir

gNMI

Job description

Crusoe is seeking a Senior Staff Network Architect to define and evolve network architecture across our hyperscale infrastructure. You will design spine-leaf data center fabrics, RDMA interconnects, and SDN control planes, while pushing IBN and GitOps-driven provisioning.

Join a high-impact team driving Crusoe's AI infrastructure at scale. You will mentor engineers, develop authoritative data models, and collaborate with software and operations to implement architectures that power tomorrow's AI