Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience
Crusoe· CTO Office
San Francisco, CA - US, Sunnyvale, CA - US$208.7k - $253kFull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Staff-level role within the Developer Experience (DevX) team responsible for developer tools and infrastructure to accelerate Crusoe engineering, spanning from local development to CI/CD, with influence on technical direction and engineering excellence across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the broader organization to build paved paths that engineers love to use. Our paved paths are fast, reliable and broadly adopted across all of engineering.
- Toil Elimination: Ruthlessly identify and automate away the friction and repetitive tasks that slow down the development process, keeping Crusoe engineers in a state of high productivity.
- Library & Environment Creation: Develop the libraries, tools, and pre-production environments necessary for vetting service APIs and complex microservice interactions.
- Ecosystem Integration: Unify internal tooling and vendor services to automate workflows, build operational efficiency, and optimize security across the development stack.
- Lifecycle Innovation: Innovate across every stage of the development lifecycle, including source code management, build systems, code review, CI/CD pipelines, platform runtimes, and telemetry.
- Culture of Quality: Lead efforts to establish a culture of continuous quality delivery that scales seamlessly as our engineering headcount and infrastructure grow.
- System Optimization: Build efficient systems and processes that serve as a force multiplier for the impact of every engineer around you.
Qualifications
- Experience: Previous experience leading the development of developer tools and/or infrastructure for engineering teams
- Technical Decision-Making: Expert ability to evaluate technical tradeoffs and understand how infrastructure decisions impact the daily productivity of the end-user (the developer).
- Modern Tooling Proficiency: Fluent knowledge of industry-standard AI tooling, build tooling, containerization, and open-source development frameworks.
- Workflow Empathy: A demonstrated passion for building empathetic developer and operator workflows that prioritize human productivity.
- Cloud-Native Expertise: Professional experience managing or developing within Kubernetes clusters and a deep understanding of container orchestration.
- DevOps & Reliability Background: Proven experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Release Engineering, or a similar productivity-focused discipline.
- Testing Infrastructure Knowledge: Deep understanding of automated testing infrastructure and how to integrate it into a seamless CI/CD pipeline.
- Language & Version Control Mastery: Expertise in modern programming languages (specifically Go) and advanced proficiency in Git-based workflows (GitLab/GitHub).
- Mandatory Education: A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related analytical field (or equivalent professional experience).
Skills
Required:GoGit-based workflows (GitLab/GitHub)
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off & paid holidays
- 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
- Volunteer time off
Last updated Jul 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Crusoe
The AI factory company | Renewable-powered AI infrastructure
Crusoe provides next-gen AI infrastructure and cloud compute using an energy-first approach. Deploy AI workloads at scale with reliable performance and 24/7 support.
AI infrastructureData centersEdge computingGPU computingRenewable energycloud computeenergy-first approachsetter-30
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