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Crusoe Energy SystemsSan Francisco, California, USA
Director of Engineering (Compute Cloud)
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On-siteFull Time$285k - $335k per yearPosted 31 days ago
About the role
- As the Director of Engineering
- Cloud Compute, you will play a pivotal role in building our foundational IaaS offerings and accelerate the development of our carbon-reducing, AI focused cloud platform
- Leveraging your extensive experience in cloud computing, you will lead complex engineering initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable and reliable cloud compute solutions
- Our customers include rapidly growing AI companies and enterprise AI teams who use our high performance GPU compute products with VPC and cluster networking technology
- We’re now adding broad new compute and virtualization capabilities to meet the needs of our growing customer base
- Serve as a team lead for cloud compute engineering at Crusoe Cloud, collaborating with leadership to define and implement the long-term road map and strategy for the team
- Guide the engineering team through architecture decisions, design processes, design reviews, code reviews, and implementation tasks
- Scale the team, including managing engineer onboarding, growing or hiring managers, and implementing team and org processes
- Stay aware of the latest trends and techniques in cloud software, incorporating these insights to maintain Crusoe’s market-leading offerings
- Drive the hiring process to attract top talent, and implement strategies to retain and develop these professionals Benefits
- Health & wellbeing: Comprehensive health benefits designed to support your overall wellness
- Time away: Paid time off for vacations, family bonding, and unexpected needs
- 401(k) match: Build your financial future with our 401(k) matching program
- Mental wellness: Resources and support for your emotional wellbeing and navigating life’s challenges
- Familiarity with AI/ML workloads and how they drive compute requirements for the cloud data center
- In-depth understanding of Compute products (CPU, GPU, ASIC accelerators) and how customers consume them
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Proven experience in building and maintaining scalable and highly available fault-tolerant distributed systems and application architectures
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- 7+ years of engineering management experience, 10+ years of experience working in software engineering
- Understanding of key hypervisors and virtualization technologies (eg KVM, VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V) and how they enable cloud computing
- Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Deep expertise in Linux environments, configuration management, and modern deployment automation to ensure safe, scalable rollouts across large-scale compute fleets
- Proven track record of operating production infrastructure to strict SLOs and SLAs, leveraging fleet-wide observability and monitoring to drive reliability, optimization, and capacity planning
- Active open-source or upstream contributions to cloud infrastructure, containerization, or virtualization technologies (e.g., KVM, QEMU, containerd, Kubernetes)
- Demonstrated leadership in ambiguous, fast-moving environments,bringing structure, clarity, and cross-functional alignment during periods of rapid organizational growth