Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Managed Platform Services

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 Sr. Staff Software Engineers to serve as the Managed Platform Services (MAPS) organization’s most senior floating technical leaders. This is not a domain-ownership role — you'll operate as part of a small, elite team of senior staff engineers deployed wherever the organization needs depth most: infrastructure scale-out, performance and reliability deep dives, new product exploration, customer-facing platform development, and cross-functional initiatives that span well beyond MAPS. You'll compress ambiguity into clarity, prototypes into products, and one team's solutions into org-wide leverage.

What You’ll Be Working On:

Engagements rotate based on business priority. Representative examples:

- Data Center Scale-Out Automation: Design and drive automation for new on-prem server and site bring-up as Crusoe undergoes rapid, large-scale data center expansion — turning bring-up from a manual effort into a repeatable, optimized pipeline.

- Performance & Reliability Deep Dives: Deep dive every component within and beneath our managed services to find systemic opportunities for performance and reliability gains — sharding gaps, concurrency issues, thundering herds — and own them through resolution. Establish platform-wide benchmarks and ensure every domain is architected for 10x scale with HA, graceful degradation, and fault isolation built in from the start.

- Rapid Prototyping & Product Viability: Build POCs to evaluate viability of new platform capabilities — AI platforms, managed vector databases, managed relational databases — exploring the full solution space, not just the recommended path, so leadership can make build/extend/buy decisions faster.

- Customer & Product-Focused Development: Deep dive AI-native customer profiles (training and inference) to identify what features and intelligent insights — both rule-based and LLM-based — our platform can offer. Partner with customer success and solution engineering to identify missing customer-facing functionality and tooling that simultaneously improves the admin and support experience.

- Platform Architecture & Migrations: Investigate and scope high-leverage architectural shifts — e.g., migrating managed services between orchestration platforms (managed vs. internal Kubernetes, public cloud vs. on-prem), quantifying effort, trade-offs, and benefits before the org commits to one-way doors.

- Cross-Functional Initiatives: Drive initiatives spanning multiple orgs — e.g., full service isolation for managed services, or partnering with managed Kubernetes, storage, and networking teams to define a permanent air-gapped solution for customers and what it looks like as a managed service offering.

- Force Multiplication via AI & Tooling: Use AI to augment your own development and prototyp …