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Senior Production Engineer, SDN

Crusoe· Cloud Engineering
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Sunnyvale, CA - US, Bellevue, WA - US, San Francisco, CA - US$170k - $205kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Crusoe Energy Systems is seeking a Senior Production Engineer focused on software-defined networking (SDN) to ensure availability, performance, and scalability of Crusoe's cloud networking services for AI compute workloads.

Responsibilities

  • Build automation and self-healing tools to monitor and maintain SDN infrastructure (edge, backbone, and data center connectivity).
  • Drive reliability initiatives focusing on routing convergence, traffic engineering, policy enforcement, and fault isolation.
  • Collaborate with network engineers to implement and maintain high-performance virtualized networking services (overlays, service meshes, programmable data planes) for large-scale AI compute clusters.
  • Support user-facing networking services with emphasis on availability, latency reduction, performance tuning, and adherence to error budgets.
  • Investigate and resolve networking incidents using telemetry, flow logs, and packet-level analysis; partner with hardware and kernel teams to optimize network stacks, drivers, and control planes.
  • Contribute to architecture of fault-tolerant, scalable SDN backends for AI-first cloud environments.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years of professional experience in PE, systems, or networking engineering
  • Experience automating network provisioning, configuration, and remediation
  • Hands-on experience with SDN platforms and protocols (e.g., Open vSwitch, ONOS, Tungsten Fabric, Calico, Cilium, EVPN/VXLAN)
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, or C
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code and tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet
  • Deep knowledge of Linux internals with focus on networking subsystems, kernel modules, and packet scheduling
  • Familiarity with BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, and network virtualization technologies
  • Strong experience with containerized workloads and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Docker); familiarity with CNI plugins (Calico, Cilium) and Kubernetes networking
  • Excellent incident response, troubleshooting, and documentation practices
  • Experience building and operating managed networking services at scale (AWS VPC, Transit Gateway, GCP VPC, Azure Virtual Network)
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Embodiment of company values

Skills

Required:Networking automationSDN platforms and protocolsProgrammingInfrastructure as CodeLinux internalsNetworking protocolsKubernetes and CNI

Benefits

  • Industry competitive pay
  • Restricted Stock Units
  • Health insurance options (HDHP and PPO), vision, dental for you and dependents
  • Employer contributions to HSA
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
  • Teladoc
  • 401(k) with 100% match up to 4%
  • Generous paid time off and holiday schedule
  • Cell phone reimbursement
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Calm app subscription
  • MetLife Legal
  • Company paid commuter benefit; $300 per month
Last updated Oct 7, 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.

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