Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

Crusoe; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Teladoc

Commuter benefit

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Crusoe in Bellevue, WA, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Platform Engineering team. You will design and ship modular microservices on top of our cloud infrastructure, turning stakeholder requirements into platform capabilities that drive feature delivery and revenue.

You will work on fleet provisioning, lifecycle management, and capacity planning using Go/Python/Java, with Postgres and Kafka, and ensure reliability and observability across services.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and operating production backend or platform services.
• Proficient in at least one backend language: Go, Python, Java, or C#.
• Experience designing microservices and APIs (gRPC/REST) in distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and event-driven systems like Kafka.
• Led projects end-to-end and mentored peers to elevate engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate microservices that automate fleet provisioning, lifecycle, and capacity management.
• Extend platform services with features that accelerate customer-facing delivery.
• Translate ambiguous requirements into modular, production-grade designs and ship them.
• Work on Google Cloud Platform and managed Kubernetes with cross-functional teams.
• Ensure reliability and observability of the services you ship.

Skills

Backend development

Go

Python

Java

C#

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kafka

GCP

Kubernetes

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 The Role

Crusoe's Platform Engineering team builds the services that automate how we manage our cloud fleet. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design and ship modular microservices on top of our underlying infrastructure, turning stakeholder requirements into platform capabilities that directly drive feature delivery and revenue.

What You'll Be Working On

• Design, build, and operate microservices that automate fleet provisioning, lifecycle, and capacity management
• Extend existing platform services with new features that directly drive customer-facing delivery
• Turn ambiguous stakeholder requirements into clear, modular designs and drive them to production
• Build on GCP and managed Kubernetes, working closely with infrastructure and cross-functional teams
• Own the reliability and observability of the services you ship

What You'll Bring To The Team

• 5+ years building and operating production backend or platform services
• Strong proficiency in at least one backend language such as Go, Python, Java, or C#
• Experience designing microservices and APIs (gRPC/REST) in distributed systems
• Hands-on experience with Postgres and event-driven systems such as Kafka
• A track record of leading projects end-to-end and raising the bar for engineers around you

Bonus Points

• Experience building on GCP, AWS, or managed Kubernetes
• Capacity management or fleet/hardware lifecycle experience
• Neocloud or GPU cloud infrastructure experience
• Experience with Go
• Observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana)

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; $300 per month

Compensation

Compensation will be paid in the range of $170,000 - $205,000. 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.