Staff Software Engineer - Cloud Observability

Crusoe; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 215,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity packages

RSUs

PTO & holidays

Health insurance

HSA contributions

Parental leave

Life insurance

Professional development

Mental health support

Commuter benefits

Cell phone stipend

401(k) match

Volunteer time off

Travel insurance

Meals allowance

Location perks

Job summary

Crusoe is building the observability backbone for Crusoe Cloud and is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead distributed systems design for our Cloud Monitoring Service. You will own high-throughput telemetry pipelines from edge collection to storage and query, with a focus on correctness, availability, and cost-efficiency at scale.

We value cross-functional collaboration, on-call reliability, and mentorship of senior engineers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software development experience with production distributed systems.
• 2+ years leading large-scale telemetry or observability platforms.
• Strong Go background and modern language fundamentals.
• Experience with Kubernetes and CI/CD in production environments.
• Ability to scope ambiguous problems and tradeoffs for customers and business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and evolution of large-scale telemetry pipelines (ingestion, processing, storage, query).
• Design scalable, multi-tenant data systems with high availability and cost-efficiency.
• Improve pipeline reliability and reduce on-call burden through robust design.
• Set technical direction and lead design reviews for distributed systems.
• Collaborate with product, compute, networking, and platform teams to align observability decisions.
• Mentor engineers through design work, code reviews, and incident response.

Skills

Distributed systems

Observability data

Go programming

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Design judgment

On-call / incident response

Cross-functional influence

Mentorship

Production experience

Tools

Prometheus

VictoriaMetrics

Loki

OpenTelemetry

Kafka

Vector

Job description

Crusoe is building the observability backbone for Crusoe Cloud and is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead distributed systems design for our Cloud Monitoring Service. You will own high-throughput telemetry pipelines from edge collection to storage and query, with a focus on correctness, availability, and cost-efficiency at scale.

We value cross-functional collaboration, on-call reliability, and mentorship of senior engineers.