Senior Storage SRE — AI Cloud & Fault-Tolerant Systems

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

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