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Senior Staff Program Lead, Cloud Engineering

Crusoe· Cloud Engineering
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San Francisco, CA - US, Sunnyvale, CA - US$230k - $280kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Crusoe seeks a Senior Staff Program Lead to own and optimize Cloud Infrastructure execution, operating rhythms, and cross-functional handoffs within the Cloud Engineering organization. The role focuses on building an operating model to scale Cloud Infrastructure from 380 to 550+ people, driving cross-team initiatives, improving execution health, and ensuring Jira/Confluence adoption as a single source of truth.

Responsibilities

  • Own the view of engineering priorities across Cloud Infrastructure: what each team is committed to this quarter, what's actually moving, and where plan and reality diverge.
  • Coordinate and unblock teams on major initiatives spanning compute, storage, networking, and Crusoe Managed Kubernetes.
  • Drive initiatives to committed dates, surface slips early, and enable leadership action.
  • Measure time-to-unblock on cross-team dependencies and drive it down.
  • Run the Cloud Infrastructure staff meeting with decisions captured and actions closed.
  • Partner with Cloud Product and Technical Product Management on planning cycles to ensure pre-work and priorities are pre-negotiated.
  • Partner with Chief of Staff organization on headcount planning and org rhythm.
  • Produce recurring leadership updates and executive readouts on Cloud Infrastructure execution health.
  • Take on cross-cutting problems and drive them to outcome or named owner.
  • Support the Chief of Staff on strategic projects spanning Cloud Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering.
  • Drive adoption of Jira, Confluence, and dashboards as sources of truth; improve structure, access, hygiene, and automation.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in technical program management, software engineering, or a technical product role in an infrastructure context
  • Track record driving multi-team technical initiatives to committed dates in infra/cloud/platform
  • Evidence of building a process or operating cadence and getting others to adopt it
  • Ability to unblock without formal authority and communicate precise needs with deadlines
  • Fluency with issue tracking at scale; driven Jira adoption or equivalent migration
  • Ability to turn multi-source data into a clear execution health picture
  • Comfort with ambiguity and incomplete documentation
  • Excellent written communication for influencing large groups
  • Scrappy, low-ego, high-drive; capable of autonomous cross-functional work
  • Ability to operate with full autonomy and align cross-functional partners

Skills

Required:Technical program managementCross-team coordinationJira adoption and issue-trackingExecutive communication

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity packages
  • Restricted Stock Units
  • Paid time off, holidays & leave
  • Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
  • Employer contributions to HSA
  • Paid parental leave
  • 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) with company match up to 4%
  • Volunteer time off
  • Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
  • Daily meals allowance
  • Location-specific perks and programs
Last updated Oct 14, 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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