Staff Storage Architect for AI Infrastructure

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and equity

Restricted Stock Units

Paid time off and holidays

Health, dental & vision insurance

HSA contributions

401(k) with company match

Professional development & tuition

Parental leave

Global travel insurance

Job summary

Crusoe is building a sustainable AI cloud and seeks a Staff Storage Administrator to lead the data storage layer. You will oversee bring-up, configuration, and tuning of enterprise arrays for AI training and inference, collaborating with Compute and Networking to deliver high-throughput, reliable storage across global production environments.

You will influence vendor roadmaps, perform PoC testing, and design scalable storage solutions aligned with Crusoe’s energy-first mission.

Qualifications

• Experience managing petabyte-scale on-prem storage environments.
• Hands-on with VAST Data and/or Pure Storage arrays.
• Strong understanding of block, file, and object storage architectures.
• Scripting skills to automate array management and monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end storage lifecycle bring-up and configuration for large enterprise arrays.
• Design and execute PoC exercises; validate vendor software in staging before production.
• Own performance tuning of storage OS and I/O patterns for AI workloads.
• Collaborate with Compute and Networking to build scalable cloud storage.
• Lead technical evaluations of new storage technologies and drive vendor RFPS.
• Represent storage needs to vendor roadmaps and influence product direction.
• Communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Petabyte-scale storage

VAST Data administration

Pure Storage administration

Performance benchmarking

Scripting (Python, Go, Bash)

Vendor management & RFPs

I/O performance tuning

Tools

VAST Data

Pure Storage (Everpure)

Job description

Crusoe is building a sustainable AI cloud and seeks a Staff Storage Administrator to lead the data storage layer. You will oversee bring-up, configuration, and tuning of enterprise arrays for AI training and inference, collaborating with Compute and Networking to deliver high-throughput, reliable storage across global production environments.

You will influence vendor roadmaps, perform PoC testing, and design scalable storage solutions aligned with Crusoe’s energy-first mission.