Role Overview
Crusoe is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join the Core Backend team within Cloud Customer Experience in San Francisco, California. This full-time position suits an experienced developer with a customer-centric mindset who wants to build scalable backend systems for an AI-focused cloud platform.
Key Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain scalable and reliable services that power user-facing experiences on the cloud platform.
Own and evolve the API gateway for Crusoe Cloud resource management traffic, handling routing, authentication, authorization, rate limiting, versioning, and tenant isolation.
Build the notification and eventing backbone to keep customers informed about infrastructure states with delivery guarantees and preference controls.
Evolve the quota and entitlement system into a product surface supporting self-serve requests, transparent limits, and correctness under contention.
Harden and automate onboarding, provisioning, and identity flows to reduce time-to-first-GPU for new customers.
Extend the resource management layer to model, expose, and reconcile new infrastructure offerings efficiently.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams like product and design to evaluate tools and build innovative solutions.
Contribute to architectural decisions supporting reliability and maintainability, mentor engineers, and enhance hiring practices.
Requirements
3+ years of professional software development experience, including programming with modern compiled languages such as Go, Rust, Java, or C++.
Experience designing versioned public APIs like gRPC, protobuf, or REST alongside SDK, CLI, or Terraform provider surfaces.
Understanding of gateway and edge concerns including request routing, authn/authz enforcement, rate limiting, and input validation.
Proven ability to design and scale fault-tolerant distributed systems and develop managed cloud services.
Strong relational database skills in PostgreSQL, including schema design, transactions, isolation levels, and safe online migrations.
Practical experience with message queues and streaming systems like Kafka for reliable event-driven architectures.
Comfort building long-running, resumable workflows and reconciliation loops for provisioning and lifecycle management.
Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, microservices, and infrastructure tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD systems.
Experience defining SLOs, instrumenting services with metrics, logs, and traces, and debugging production issues.
Nice to Have
Direct experience building or scaling a public cloud console or developer platform.
Familiarity with the unique requirements of AI/ML workloads and their impact on cloud resource management.
Experience with financial or billing systems at scale, such as usage-based billing or credits.
Prior experience in a high-growth startup environment or a neocloud infrastructure provider.
Contributions to open-source projects related to cloud-native infrastructure or developer experience.
Skills and Tools
Kubernetes
Docker
Java
Rust
C++
Kafka
Terraform
Go
PostgreSQL
gRPC
REST
Salary and Benefits
Competitive compensation ranging from $170,000 to $205,000 per year plus bonus
Restricted Stock Units included in all offers
Paid time off and paid holidays
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
Paid parental leave
Paid life insurance, short-term, and long-term disability
Professional development and tuition reimbursement
Mental health and wellness support
Commuter benefits for parking and transit
Cell phone stipend
401(k) retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
Volunteer time off
About the Company
Crusoe operates on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence as a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company. The organization owns and operates each layer of the stack from electrons to tokens to power ambitious AI workloads with an energy-first approach.
How to Apply
Interested candidates should visit the official Crusoe careers page to submit an application for this role.
