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Engineering Manager, SDN Control Plane

Crusoe· Cloud Engineering
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San Francisco, CA - US, Sunnyvale, CA - US, Bellevue, WA - US$215k - $260kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Engineering Manager role leading the team building the scalable control plane for VPC networking within Crusoe Cloud, focusing on SDN control plane scale and reliability for multi-tenant GPU fleets, with hands-on leadership and rapid feature-to-production delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Technical Ownership: define roadmap for the VPC control plane and evolve network virtualization systems (e.g., OVN/OVS) delivering VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancing, NAT, and internet/hybrid connectivity.
  • Architecture & Scale: design distributed control-plane services including intent APIs, state reconciliation, network policy compilation, and southbound programming of hosts/DPUs, driving scalability beyond current fleet size.
  • Production Execution: support reliability engineering, convergence and API-latency benchmarking, regression prevention, and incident response within 3-6 month execution cycles.
  • People Leadership: mentor and grow a team of mid-level to senior distributed systems engineers, set technical standards, foster high-performance culture.
  • 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

  • 6-8+ years in distributed systems or cloud networking engineering.
  • 2-4+ years managing engineering talent.
  • Strong knowledge of SDN and network virtualization: VXLAN/Geneve, VPC constructs, routing (BGP/EVPN), OVN/OVS or equivalent.
  • Hands-on experience building large-scale control planes: state reconciliation, consensus, API design, fleet-wide configuration propagation (Go, Kubernetes-style controllers, or similar).
  • Understanding of operating multi-tenant cloud services: SLOs, convergence-time and scale benchmarking, graceful degradation, blast-radius containment.
  • Execution mindset to resolve complex technical challenges in a fast-moving environment.

Skills

Required:Distributed systems designSDN / network virtualizationGo / Kubernetes-style controllers

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 location-specific perks
Last updated Aug 12, 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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