Staff Software Engineer, Crusoe Container Registry

Crusoe
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 215,000 - 260,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Problem-solving","Opportunity-finding","Sense of urgency","Mentorship","Collaboration","Communication","Customer-centric mindset","Thriving in ambiguity"]

Own the technical direction and scaling roadmap for a high-performance, reliable container registry that sits on the critical path for deployments and job launches. Drive end-to-end changes from design through production, push system performance limits through profiling and benchmarking, and lead architectural tradeoffs. Raise the team’s technical bar via reviews and mentorship, and coordinate across adjacent teams while leading technical response when issues break in production.

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Crusoe
Crusoe
4 days ago

Staff Software Engineer, Crusoe Container Registry

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Job Summary

Own the technical direction and scaling roadmap for a high-performance, reliable container registry that sits on the critical path for deployments and job launches. Drive end-to-end changes from design through production, push system performance limits through profiling and benchmarking, and lead architectural tradeoffs. Raise the team’s technical bar via reviews and mentorship, and coordinate across adjacent teams while leading technical response when issues break in production.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Set architecture and the scaling roadmap for the container registry, establishing patterns and standards while ensuring long-term scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
  • •Drive high-impact changes end-to-end from design through production, staying accountable for scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
  • •Develop and execute performance strategy across the registry system, including profiling, benchmarking, and proactive tradeoffs ahead of demand curves.
  • •Raise the team’s technical bar through architecture, design, code review, and hands-on mentorship while multiplying engineering effectiveness.
  • •Influence and align technical designs across adjacent teams and lead technical response when issues arise in production.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 215,000 - 260,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityPaid LeavePaid HolidaysHealth InsuranceDentalVisionHsaParental LeaveLife InsuranceLong-term DisabilityLearning BudgetCommuter BenefitsCell Phone401kVolunteer Time

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of professional software development experience, including building and operating distributed systems.
  • •Design, scale, and harden distributed systems reliably under high-load production environments.
  • •Set performance strategy and have experience profiling, benchmarking, and optimizing distributed systems (latency, throughput, caching, resource tradeoffs).
  • •Strong fundamentals in microservices and cloud-native infrastructure technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform, plus languages like Go, Rust, Java, or C++.
  • •Experience owning critical systems from design through production and making difficult tradeoffs under operational pressure.
Experience:8+ yearsDistributed systemsCloud infrastructureMicroservicesContainer registryCloud-nativeAI infrastructure
Skills:Problem-solvingOpportunity-findingSense of urgencyMentorshipCollaborationCommunicationCustomer-centric mindsetThriving in ambiguity
Tech Stack:DockerKubernetesTerraformGoRustJavaC++MicroservicesOCIContainer registryStorage systemsCaching systems

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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