Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering

CRUSOE; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Industry competitive pay

Restricted Stock Units

Health insurance (HDHP & PPO)

Employer contributions to HSA

Parental Leave

Life insurance & disability

Teladoc

401(k) with 100% match up to 4%

Generous PTO & holidays

Cell phone reimbursement

Tuition reimbursement

Calm app subscription

MetLife Legal

Commuter benefit $300/mo

Job summary

Crusoe in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and ship modular microservices that power fleet provisioning, lifecycle, and capacity management on our cloud platform. You will own features end-to-end, driving production delivery and revenue impact.

Bring 5+ years building backend services, and strong skills in Go, Python, Java, or C#. Expertise in microservices design, APIs (gRPC/REST), Postgres, and Kafka is required.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Go

Python

Java

C#

Microservices

APIs

PostgreSQL

Kafka

GCP

Kubernetes

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kafka

gRPC

REST

Kubernetes

Go

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.