Software Engineer, Control Plane

crusoe; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Paid time off

Health insurance

HSA contributions

Parental leave

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Tuition reimbursement

Wellness support

Commuter benefits

Cell phone stipend

401(k) match

Volunteer time off

Travel insurance

Meals allowance

Job summary

Crusoe is seeking a Software Engineer, Control Plane to help build and scale the Crusoe Cloud control plane. You will own services within the IaaS platform, ensuring fault tolerance and high performance as Crusoe scales for AI workloads.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in software development, with Go preferred (Rust or C++ also valued), and experience with distributed systems and Kubernetes. Join a team that ships fast and deeply cares about reliability.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience with Go, Rust, or C++.
• Experience building distributed systems or managed cloud services.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and Postgres.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain microservices powering the Crusoe Cloud control plane.
• Implement IaaS primitives for high throughput and low latency provisioning.
• Collaborate with Product, Networking, and Storage teams on cloud features.
• Improve observability, testing, and reliability of distributed systems.
• Participate in design reviews and onboard new engineers.

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:

We are seeking a Software Engineer, Control Plane to help build and scale the next generation of Crusoe Cloud’s Control Plane. As a member of the Compute team, you will contribute to the high-availability systems that manage our global fleet of AI-optimized compute, network, and storage resources.

In this role, you will transition from executing defined tasks to taking ownership of specific services and features within our IaaS platform. You will ensure that as Crusoe scales to meet massive AI demand, our control plane remains fault-tolerant, performant, and seamlessly integrated with our underlying high-performance hardware.

What You'll Be Working On:

• Develop and Maintain Microservices: Build and optimize the scalable services that power the Crusoe Cloud control plane and manage complex virtualized resource lifecycles.

• Implement IaaS Primitives: Contribute to the backend logic that ensures high throughput and low-latency API responses for large-scale cluster provisioning.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Networking, and Storage teams to implement features that create differentiated cloud solutions for AI/ML customers.

• Operational Excellence: Improve the observability, testing coverage, and reliability of our distributed systems through clean code and robust CI/CD practices.

• Technical Growth: Participate in rigorous design reviews, contribute to team documentation, and help onboard new engineers to the team’s codebase.

What You'll Bring to the Team:

• Feature Implementation: Write high-quality, production-ready code in Go to handle resource state transitions and API orchestration.

• Design for Reliability: Contribute to design docs for multi-region control plane services, focusing on edge cases and failure modes.

• Scaling & Optimization: Help identify and resolve bottlenecks in our resource orchestration layer using tools like Kubernetes, Go, and Postgres.

• Production Support: Work alongside SREs to investigate production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes to harden our environment.

• 3+ years of software development experience with proficiency in a modern compiled language—Go is highly preferred, but Rust or C++ are also valued.

• Experience building and deploying distributed systems or managed cloud services in a production environment.

• Working knowledge of the modern infrastructure stack, including Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and Postgres.

• A solid understanding of how cloud resources (Compute, Network, Storage) are abstracted and managed.

• A "product-minded" approach to engineering, with the ability to understand how technical decisions impact the end-user experience.

• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical trade-offs within your immediate team.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation and equity packages

• Restricted Stock Units

• Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs

• Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance

• Employer contributions to HSA account

• Paid parental leave

• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability

• Professional development & tuition reimbursement

• Mental health & wellness support

• Commuter benefits (parking & transit)

• Cell phone stipend

• 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary

• Volunteer time off

• Global travel insurance & emergency assistance

• Daily meals allowance

• Additional perks & programs specific to location

Compensation Range

Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $136,000 - $160,500 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicants knowledge, education, 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.