Senior Production Engineer, Storage
Crusoe· Cloud Engineering
San Francisco, CA - US, Sunnyvale, CA - US, Bellevue, WA - US$170k - $205kFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
SRE role focusing on storage reliability and performance for Crusoe's AI-optimized cloud infrastructure, with emphasis on distributed, fault-tolerant storage systems (block, file, object) and NVMe-/SSD-backed storage for large-scale AI compute clusters.
Responsibilities
- Build automation and self-healing tools to monitor and maintain distributed cloud storage infrastructure (block, file, and object storage).
- Drive reliability initiatives around data replication, encryption, backup/restore strategies, and robust failover mechanisms.
- Collaborate with storage engineers to implement and maintain high-performance NVMe- and SSD-backed volumes for large-scale AI compute clusters.
- Support user-facing storage services with focus on availability, performance tuning, and adherence to error budgets.
- Investigate and resolve storage-related incidents using telemetry, logs, and performance profiling.
- Partner with hardware and kernel teams to diagnose low-level I/O issues and optimize I/O paths, cache policies, and file systems.
- Contribute to architecture of fault-tolerant, scalable storage 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 Storage SRE, systems, or storage engineering
- Deep, hands-on experience with enterprise storage platforms (e.g., Pure Storage or EMC) and understanding of system architecture
- Deep understanding of object, block, and file storage paradigms
- Proficiency in Go, Python, Java, or C
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet)
- Deep knowledge of Linux internals, I/O subsystems, memory management, and storage scheduling
- Familiarity with storage protocols (NFS, SMB, iSCSI, NVMe-oF)
- Strong experience with containerized workloads and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Excellent incident response, troubleshooting, and documentation practices
- Experience building and operating managed storage services at scale (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Skills
Required:Storage SRE practicesEnterprise storage platformsProgrammingInfrastructure as CodeLinux internalsStorage protocolsContainer orchestration
Benefits
- Industry competitive pay
- Restricted Stock Units
- Health insurance (HDHP and PPO), vision, dental for you and dependents
- Employer contributions to HSA
- Paid Parental Leave
- Life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
- Teladoc
- 401(k) with 100% match up to 4%
- Generous paid time off and holidays
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Tuition reimbursement
- Calm app subscription
- MetLife Legal
- Company-paid commuter benefit; $300 per month
Last updated Oct 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.
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