Senior Production Engineer (Storage)

Crusoe Energy Systems; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellbeing benefits

401(k) match

Paid time off

Job summary

Crusoe Energy Systems seeks a Storage Site Reliability Engineer to ensure availability, performance, and scalability of cloud storage products for AI and HPC workloads. You will build automation, improve replication and encryption, and collaborate with storage engineers on NVMe-SSD storage for large AI compute clusters.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in Storage SRE or storage engineering, with a strong Linux I/O background, container orchestration, and IaC tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, or

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in Storage SRE, systems, or storage engineering.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong experience with containerized workloads and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Deep knowledge of Linux I/O subsystems, memory management, and storage scheduling.

Responsibilities

• Build automation and self-healing tools to monitor and maintain distributed cloud storage infrastructure.
• Drive reliability initiatives focusing on data replication, encryption, backup and restore, and robust failover mechanisms.
• Collaborate with storage engineers to implement high-performance NVMe- and SSD-backed storage for AI compute clusters.
• Support availability, performance tuning, and adherence to error budgets for user-facing storage services.
• Investigate and resolve storage incidents using telemetry, logs, and performance profiling; work with kernel teams to optimize I/O paths and file systems.
• Contribute to architecture of fault-tolerant, scalable storage backends for AI-first cloud environments.

Skills

Storage systems

Incident response

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Ceph

Job description

• At Crusoe Energy Systems, our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team plays a mission-critical role in maintaining the performance and reliability of our AI-optimized cloud infrastructure


• The Storage-focused SRE role is responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, and scalability of Crusoe's cloud storage products and services, which power compute-intensive, latency-sensitive workloads for AI and HPC use cases


• This role directly supports our vertically integrated, sustainable cloud platform by building and optimizing distributed, fault-tolerant storage systems at scale


• In this role, you will build automation and self-healing tools to monitor and maintain Crusoe's distributed cloud storage infrastructure, which includes block, file, and object storage systems


• You will drive reliability initiatives focused on data replication, encryption, backup and restore strategies, and robust failover mechanisms


• Collaborating closely with storage engineers, you will help implement and maintain high-performance NVMe- and SSD-backed volumes that support large-scale AI compute clusters


• Your responsibilities will also include supporting user-facing storage services with a focus on availability, performance tuning, and adherence to error budgets


• You’ll investigate and resolve storage-related incidents using deep telemetry, logs, and performance profiling, while also partnering with hardware and kernel teams to diagnose low-level I/O issues and optimize I/O paths, cache policies, and file systems


• Additionally, you will contribute to the architecture of fault-tolerant, scalable storage backends tailored for AI-first cloud environments

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

5+ years of professional experience in Storage SRE, systems, or storage engineering
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
Strong experience working with containerized workloads and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker)
Deep understanding of object, block, and file storage paradigms
Experience with Infrastructure as Code and deployment tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet
Deep, hands-on experience with enterprise storage platforms such as Pure Storage or EMC - not limited to volume creation/provisioning, but a working understanding of how the systems are architected and operated
Excellent incident response, troubleshooting, and documentation practices
Deep knowledge of Linux internals with a focus on I/O subsystems, memory management, and storage scheduling
Proficiency in a programming language such as Go, Python, Java, or C
Familiarity with storage protocols like NFS, SMB, iSCSI, or NVMe-oF
Experience with building and operating managed services at scale such as object, file and block storage (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Hands-on experience with distributed storage systems (e.g., Ceph, GlusterFS, OpenEBS, Vast, Lightbits)
Contributions to open-source storage projects or the Linux storage stack
Experience with hybrid storage models across on-prem and cloud environments