Senior Director, Cloud Engineering

Crusoe Energy Systems LLC; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 325,000 - 370,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Restricted Stock Units

Paid time off

Health, dental & vision insurance

401(k) Retirement plan with company 4%

Parental leave

Wellness support

Commuter benefits

Cell phone stipend

Job summary

Crusoe Energy Systems LLC seeks a Senior Director of Engineering to run Crusoe's customer-facing cloud platform, overseeing a 60+ person Product Engineering org. You’ll set technical direction, drive the roadmap, and ensure reliability, security, and on-call rigor with close customer collaboration.

The role sits near the customer and core tech, reporting to the VP of Engineering. You’ll own major platform bets and guide critical responses with impact."

Qualifications

• 12+ years in software engineering and 5+ years leading 40-100+ engineer orgs—demonstrated scale leadership.
• Experience directing Directors and Senior Engineering Managers and scaling through leaders.
• Owned cloud platform experience (IaaS/PaaS/managed services) with reliability in production.
• Strong interest in AI tooling, ecosystem, user experience, and platform-scale decisions.
• Distributed systems and cloud infrastructure are core strengths with sound platform-scale judgment.

Responsibilities

• Lead a 60+ person Product Engineering org through senior managers and engineering leads.
• Drive the roadmap for Crusoe's customer-facing cloud platform and managed services.
• Set direction for developer portal, identity, billing, interfaces, registries, metrics, and managed logging.
• Ship the roadmap with Product and Infrastructure while raising quality, reliability, security, and on-call discipline.
• Step into major customer escalations and key product decisions when stakes are high.
• Turn customer needs into platform capabilities with Sales and Solutions Engineering.
• Build shared technical foundations with Crusoe's broader infrastructure and AI platform teams.

Job description

Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.

We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.

We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.

If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.

About This Role:

As Senior Director, Engineering, you'll run the team behind Crusoe's customer-facing cloud platform. This is the software layer customers depend on every day - from developer portal and identity to billing, registries, metrics, and managed logging.

You'll lead a 60+ person Product Engineering org through senior managers and engineering leads. You'll set technical direction, drive the roadmap, and keep the bar high on reliability, security, and on-call execution.

The role sits close to customers and close to the technical core. When a platform bet matters or a customer issue turns critical, you'll help lead the response. You'll report to the Vice President of Engineering.

What You’ll Be Working On:

• Lead a 60+ person Product Engineering org through senior managers and engineering leads.
• Drive the roadmap for Crusoe's customer-facing cloud platform and managed services.
• Set direction for developer portal, identity, billing, interfaces, registries, metrics, and managed logging.
• Ship the roadmap with Product and Infrastructure while raising quality, reliability, security, and on-call rigor.
• Step into major customer escalations and key product decisions when stakes are high.
• Turn customer needs into platform capabilities with Sales and Solutions Engineering.
• Build shared technical foundations with Crusoe's broader infrastructure and AI platform teams.

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

• 12+ years in software engineering and 5+ years leading 40-100+ engineer orgs means real scale won't be new to you.
• Leading Directors and senior Engineering Managers is familiar ground. You know how to scale through leaders, not just direct reports.
• You've owned a cloud platform customers pay for - IaaS, PaaS, or managed services - and know what reliability feels like in production.
• You’re AI tooling fluent and are passionate about the ecosystem, the user experience, and have an interest in pushing the envelope.
• Distributed systems and cloud infrastructure are home turf. You can go deep with engineers and make sound calls at platform scale.
• In growth-stage settings, you've kept teams moving through ambiguity without letting quality or on-call discipline slip.
• You're a builder. When the playbook is thin, you create the structure the team needs.
• Direct, low-ego leadership matters here. People trust you, and you raise standards without adding noise.

Bonus Points:

• Time inside AWS, GCP, Azure, CoreWeave, Lambda Labs, or a similar cloud provider will help you ramp faster.
• AI/ML platform work at scale is a useful context for the managed services we build.
• Past experience scaling an engineering org through rapid growth will translate well here.
• You've built products for both developers and enterprises, with a clear eye for user experience.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation and 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

Compensation Range:

Compensation will be paid in the range of $325,000 - $370,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicants knowledge, education, 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.