Senior Production Engineer, SDN

Crusoe
Sunnyvale
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 170,000 - 205,000Function: Manufacturing & Production OperationsExperience: 5+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Incident response","Troubleshooting","Documentation","Communication","Opportunity-finding"]

Own the reliability and performance of SDN-driven cloud networking that powers AI and HPC workloads. Build automation and self-healing tooling, drive routing convergence and fault isolation, and partner with network, hardware, and kernel teams to optimize control planes and network stacks. Support user-facing networking with availability/latency improvements, investigate incidents using telemetry and flow logs, and help design scalable, fault-tolerant SDN backends for AI-first cloud environments.

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Senior Production Engineer, SDN

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Job Summary

Own the reliability and performance of SDN-driven cloud networking that powers AI and HPC workloads. Build automation and self-healing tooling, drive routing convergence and fault isolation, and partner with network, hardware, and kernel teams to optimize control planes and network stacks. Support user-facing networking with availability/latency improvements, investigate incidents using telemetry and flow logs, and help design scalable, fault-tolerant SDN backends for AI-first cloud environments.
Location: Sunnyvale
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Manufacturing & Production Operations
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build automation and self-healing tools to monitor and maintain SDN infrastructure.
  • •Drive reliability initiatives including routing convergence, traffic engineering, policy enforcement, and fault isolation.
  • •Implement and maintain high-performance virtualized networking services (e.g., overlays, service meshes, programmable data planes) for large-scale AI compute clusters.
  • •Investigate and resolve networking incidents using deep telemetry, flow logs, and packet-level analysis; improve availability, latency, and performance tuning.
  • •Partner with hardware and kernel teams and contribute to the architecture of fault-tolerant, scalable SDN backends for AI-first cloud environments.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 170,000 - 205,000
Perks:Health InsuranceVisionDental401kPaid ParentalPaid LifeLong-term DisabilityRemote WorkTelemedicineCommuter Benefits

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • •5+ years of professional experience in production engineering, systems, or networking engineering.
  • •Demonstrated experience automating network provisioning, configuration, and remediation (manual rack-and-stack alone is not sufficient).
  • •Hands-on experience with SDN platforms and protocols such as Open vSwitch, ONOS, Tungsten Fabric, Calico, Cilium, and EVPN/VXLAN.
  • •Proficiency in Python, Go, or C, plus experience with Infrastructure as Code/deployment tooling like Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
Experience:5+ yearsAI infrastructureCloudSDNNetworkingHPCInfrastructure as code
Education:Bachelor's in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering
Skills:Incident responseTroubleshootingDocumentationCommunicationOpportunity-finding
Tech Stack:Software-defined networking (SDN)Open vSwitchONOSTungsten FabricCalicoCiliumEVPN/VXLANPythonGoCTerraformAnsiblePuppetLinuxKernel modulesPacket schedulingBGPOSPFIS-ISMPLS

Company Brief

Crusoe
Builds vertically integrated, energy-first AI infrastructure and purpose-built AI data centers (Crusoe Cloud), leveraging clean/stranded energy to power large-scale GPU compute for AI training and inference.
Industry: Data Centers
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Decacorn (USD 10B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: Denver, United States
Founded: 2018
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