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Senior Engineering Manager, SDN Control Plane

Crusoe· Cloud Engineering
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San Francisco, CA - US, Sunnyvale, CA - US$250k - $300k + bonusFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Engineering Manager responsible for leading the SDN control plane team building the scalable VPC networking and Crusoe Cloud frontend network, including architecture, implementation, and production operation of distributed systems for multi-tenant GPU fleets.

Responsibilities

  • Technical Ownership: Define the roadmap for the VPC control plane and lead the evolution of network virtualization systems (such as OVN/OVS) that deliver VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancing, NAT, and internet/hybrid connectivity.
  • Architecture & Scale: Oversee the design of distributed control-plane services: intent APIs, state reconciliation, network policy compilation, and southbound programming of hosts and DPUs, driving scalability beyond current fleet size.
  • Production Execution: Lead reliability engineering, convergence and API-latency benchmarking, regression prevention, and incident response, ensuring operational excellence within 3-6 month execution cycles.
  • People Leadership: Mentor and grow a team of senior and staff-level distributed systems engineers, setting technical standards and fostering a high-performance culture of accountability.
  • Collaboration: Partner with data-plane teams (XDP/eBPF, DPDK, DPU offload) and cloud product teams to deliver low-latency, highly available networking for multi-tenant GPU clusters.

Qualifications

  • At least 10+ years in distributed systems or cloud networking engineering, with 5-7+ years managing senior/staff-level talent.
  • Deep knowledge of SDN and network virtualization: overlay networking (VXLAN/Geneve), VPC constructs, routing (BGP/EVPN), and control-plane architectures such as OVN/OVS or equivalent.
  • Hands-on experience building large-scale control planes: state reconciliation, consensus and consistency trade-offs, API design, and fleet-wide configuration propagation (Go, Kubernetes-style controllers, or similar).
  • Strong understanding of operating multi-tenant cloud services: SLOs, convergence-time and scale benchmarking, graceful degradation, blast-radius containment.
  • Execution Mindset: ability to resolve complex technical challenges in a fast-moving, execution-heavy environment.

Skills

Required:SDN and network virtualizationDistributed systems engineeringLeadership & people management

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
  • Volunteer time off
  • Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
  • Daily meals allowance
  • Additional perks & programs specific to location
Last updated Sep 23, 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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