Staff Storage Architect - AI Infra & On-Prem Scale

Candidate; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 215,000 - 255,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and equity

RSUs

Paid time off, holidays & leaves

Health, dental & vision insurance

HSA contributions

Parental leave

Life insurance and disability

Tuition reimbursement

Mental health & wellness support

Commuter benefits

Cell phone stipend

401(k) with company match

Volunteer time off

Travel insurance & emergency support

Daily meals allowance

Location-specific perks

Job summary

Crusoe is seeking a Staff Storage Administrator to lead the data layer for our AI cloud. You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of global storage environments, from bring-up to tuning, shaping vendor strategies and roadmap input.

You will work across the storage stack to ensure high-throughput, reliable AI training and inference IO, with a sustainability focus. You will collaborate with Compute, Networking and architecture teams to design cloud-scale storage systems, evaluate new technologies,

Qualifications

• 10+ years in storage systems administration.
• Hands-on with VAST Data and/or Pure Storage.
• Strong understanding of block, file and object storage architectures.
• Experience with benchmarking and observability tools (FIO, blktrace, nvme-cli, nfs-gaze, eBPF).
• Experience with SSDs, NVMe, RAID, caching, or distributed storage systems.
• Familiarity with enterprise flash arrays and distributed file systems.
• Scripting in Python/Go/Bash to automate array management.
• Ability to analyze performance data and present conclusions.
• Experience drafting technical requirements, evaluating RFPs and managing vendor relationships.
• Interest in Crusoe’s mission toward sustainable infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate performance of storage systems and tune to target KPIs.
• Design and execute PoC exercises to test new arrays and vendor software.
• Own bring-up, configuration and tuning of large enterprise storage arrays.
• Collaborate with Compute and Networking to build cloud-scale storage.
• Lead technical evaluations of new storage tech and author RFPs.
• Engage with storage partners to influence roadmaps and feature sets.
• Communicate findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Storage systems

VAST Data

Pure Storage

Scripting (Python/Go/Bash)

NVMe

RAID/Caching

Performance benchmarking

Distributed file systems

Data throughput

I/O analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

FIO

blktrace

nvme-cli

nfs-gaze

eBPF

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Job description

Crusoe is seeking a Staff Storage Administrator to lead the data layer for our AI cloud. You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of global storage environments, from bring-up to tuning, shaping vendor strategies and roadmap input.

You will work across the storage stack to ensure high-throughput, reliable AI training and inference IO, with a sustainability focus. You will collaborate with Compute, Networking and architecture teams to design cloud-scale storage systems, evaluate new technologies,