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Staff Software Engineer, Crusoe Container Registry

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

About the role

Staff Software Engineer to advance Crusoe Cloud's container registry, focusing on performance, reliability, and scalability in production as the platform grows.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical direction: Set the architecture and scaling roadmap for Crusoe Cloud's container registry. Establish the patterns and standards the team builds against, and stay accountable for scalability, reliability, and maintainability over the long haul.
  • Ship end-to-end: Drive high impact changes from design through production, and stay accountable for their scalability, reliability and maintainability.
  • Push performance limits: Drive performance strategy across the system and get ahead of demand curves before they reach customers. Make the architecture tradeoffs that keep the registry dependable as it grows.
  • Multiply the team: Raise the team's technical bar through architecture, design, and code review, and through mentorship, while staying hands-on on complex challenges. Make the engineers around you more effective, not just yourself.
  • Drive technical strategy across teams: Influence designs across adjacent teams, align with product and other partners on priorities and tradeoffs, and lead the technical response when things break.

Qualifications

  • Distributed systems at scale: You have proven success designing, scaling, and hardening distributed systems, all while keeping them reliable under high-load production environments.
  • A performance-driven mindset: You set performance strategy and have deep, practical experience profiling, benchmarking, and optimizing distributed systems, with sound judgment about latency, throughput, caching, and resource tradeoffs at scale.
  • Thrive in ambiguity: You thrive on transforming ambiguous performance problems into measured action and durable fixes. You work ahead of demand, identifying constraints before they reach customers.
  • A track record of system level ownership: You've owned critical systems from design through production and carried them through operational pressure. You've made difficult calls under conflicting requirements and visible risk, and stood behind them.
  • A customer-centric mindset: You keep the customers top of mind, and you can translate their needs into actionable changes in the codebase.
  • Technical & infrastructure proficiency: You have strong fundamentals in microservices and cloud-native infrastructure technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) alongside languages like Go, Rust, Java, or C++.
  • Collaboration and communication: You are comfortable working across functions to align on priorities and to explain technical tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical partners alike.
  • Mentorship and force multiplication: You’ve grown other engineers. You’ve mentored teammates on the team's systems, helped newer engineers find their footing, raised the team’s technical bar, and contributed to hiring.
  • Experience: 8+ years of professional software development experience, including time spent building and operating distributed systems.

Skills

Required:Distributed systems design and scalabilityPerformance profiling and optimizationCloud-native infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform)Programming languages (Go, Rust, Java, or C++)System ownershipCross-functional collaboration

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 Aug 19, 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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