Senior Storage Reliability Engineer for AI Cloud

crusoe; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

HSA

Parental leave

Disability insurance

401(k) match

PTO

Cell phone reimbursement

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Crusoe Energy Systems in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking a Storage SRE to maintain and scale our AI-ready cloud storage. You will build automation and self-healing tools to monitor Crusoe's distributed storage infrastructure, including block, file, and object storage.

You will drive reliability initiatives for data replication, encryption, backup, and failover. Work with storage engineers, kernel and hardware teams to optimize I/O paths, cache policies, and NVMe-/SSD-backed volumes across large AI

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field; equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of Storage SRE, systems, or storage engineering experience
• Hands-on with enterprise storage platforms (Pure Storage, EMC) and understanding of storage architectures
• Deep knowledge of object, block, and file storage paradigms
• Proficiency in Go, Python, Java, or C
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and deployment tools (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet)
• Strong Linux internals knowledge focusing on I/O, memory, and storage scheduling
• Familiarity with NFS, SMB, iSCSI, NVMe-oF
• Experience with containerized workloads and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Excellent incident response, troubleshooting, and documentation practices
• Experience with managed storage services on AWS, GCP, Azure

Responsibilities

• Build automation and self-healing tools to monitor Crusoe's distributed cloud storage infrastructure
• Drive reliability initiatives for data replication, encryption, backup, and robust failover mechanisms
• Collaborate with storage engineers and hardware/kernel teams to optimize I/O paths and storage scheduling
• Support high-performance NVMe- and SSD-backed volumes for large-scale AI compute clusters
• Contribute to architecture of fault-tolerant, scalable storage backends for AI-first cloud environments

Skills

Go

Python

Java

C

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Linux internals

Storage protocols

Kubernetes

Docker

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE or related

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Job description

Crusoe Energy Systems in Sunnyvale, CA, is seeking a Storage SRE to maintain and scale our AI-ready cloud storage. You will build automation and self-healing tools to monitor Crusoe's distributed storage infrastructure, including block, file, and object storage.

You will drive reliability initiatives for data replication, encryption, backup, and failover. Work with storage engineers, kernel and hardware teams to optimize I/O paths, cache policies, and NVMe-/SSD-backed volumes across large AI