Crusoe
Senior Software Engineer, Crusoe Container Registry
San Francisco, CA - US · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$170k-$205kDetected 8 days ago
JavaGoRustDistributed SystemsCode ReviewDockerKubernetesTerraformCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoring
About the role
- We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help make Crusoe Cloud's container registry fast and reliable as the platform grows.
- The registry sits on the critical path of every deployment and job launch on our platform, and its performance directly affects how quickly customer workloads come online.
- Make the architecture tradeoffs that keep the system dependable as it grows.
Responsibilities
- Take strategic, high-impact components from design through production, and stay accountable for their scalability, reliability and maintainability.
- Drive performance improvements, squash bottlenecks, get ahead of demand before it arrives.
- Guide the team through architecture decisions and design and code reviews, while remaining actively involved in the codebase to tackle complex challenges.
- Shape technical designs within the team and across adjacent ones.
- Drive dialogue with product and platform partners to align on priorities and system trade-offs.
- You've led complex projects from design through deployment, carried them in production, and made difficult calls under visible risk and conflicting requirements.
- You'll own core services of the registry, drive its scaling roadmap, and be accountable for how it performs, degrades, and recovers in production.
- Ship end-to-end: Take strategic, high-impact components from design through production, and stay accountable for their scalability, reliability and maintainability.
- Push performance limits: Drive performance improvements, squash bottlenecks, get ahead of demand before it arrives. Make the architecture tradeoffs that keep the system dependable as it grows.
- Stay hands-on: Guide the team through architecture decisions and design and code reviews, while remaining actively involved in the codebase to tackle complex challenges.
Requirements
- You have proven success designing, scaling, and hardening distributed systems, all while keeping them reliable under high-load production environments.
- You have practical experience profiling, benchmarking, and optimizing distributed systems, with sound judgment about latency, throughput, caching, and resource tradeoffs.
- You have strong fundamentals in microservices and cloud-native infrastructure technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) alongside languages like Go, Rust, Java, or C++.
- You have an interest in growing other engineers, such as mentoring teammates on the team's systems, helping newer engineers find their footing, or contributing to how we hire.
- Distributed systems at scale: You have proven success designing, scaling, and hardening distributed systems, all while keeping them reliable under high-load production environments.
- A performance-driven mindset: You have practical experience profiling, benchmarking, and optimizing distributed systems, with sound judgment about latency, throughput, caching, and resource tradeoffs.
- Technical & infrastructure proficiency: You have strong fundamentals in microservices and cloud-native infrastructure technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) alongside languages like Go, Rust, Java, or C++.
- Mentorship: You have an interest in growing other engineers, such as mentoring teammates on the team's systems, helping newer engineers find their footing, or contributing to how we hire.
- Familiarity with the OCI image and distribution specs
Skills
- Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence.
- The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck.
Compensation
- Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $170,000 -$205,000 + Bonus.
- Compensation to be determined by the applicant's knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
- Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
- Employer contributions to HSA account
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
- Professional development & tuition reimbursement
- Mental health & wellness support
- Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
Company info
- You thrive on transforming ambiguous performance problems into measured action and durable fixes.
- You work ahead of demand, identifying constraints before they reach customers.
- You keep the customers top of mind, and you can translate their needs into actionable changes in the codebase.
- Thrive in ambiguity: You thrive on transforming ambiguous performance problems into measured action and durable fixes. You work ahead of demand, identifying constraints before they reach customers.
- A customer-centric mindset: You keep the customers top of mind, and you can translate their needs into actionable changes in the codebase.
Equal opportunity
- Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran st
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