Senior Staff Network Architect

Crusoe
San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Seattle, Bellevue
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 265,000 - 310,000 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 12+ yearsSkills: ["Git","CI/CD","Terraform","Ansible","Nornir","GNMI","NetCONF","YANG","RESTCONF","Calico","Cilium","Flannel","Multus","BGP","EVPN","VXLAN","OSPF","ECMP","BFD","RDMA"]

Lead the design and implementation of Crusoe's hyperscale network architecture across data centers, SDN control planes, Kubernetes networking, and GitOps-driven infrastructure. You will define and own the network source of truth, drive modern networking paradigms, mentor engineers, and collaborate with leadership to raise the bar on reliability, scalability, and performance for AI workloads.

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Senior Staff Network Architect

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Job Summary

Lead the design and implementation of Crusoe's hyperscale network architecture across data centers, SDN control planes, Kubernetes networking, and GitOps-driven infrastructure. You will define and own the network source of truth, drive modern networking paradigms, mentor engineers, and collaborate with leadership to raise the bar on reliability, scalability, and performance for AI workloads.
Location: San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Seattle, Bellevue
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own end-to-end hyperscale data center network architecture, including spine-leaf fabrics, RDMA, out-of-band management, and inter-campus WAN design.
  • •Design and evolve SDN control plane architectures for programmable underlay/overlay networking across multi-vendor hardware environments.
  • •Define Kubernetes networking, including CNI selection, network policies, multi-cluster service mesh, and BGP integration.
  • •Architect Intent-Based Networking (IBN) frameworks translating business goals into device configurations.
  • •Establish infrastructure-as-code practices and GitOps-driven network provisioning with continuous validation pipelines.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 265,000 - 310,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceVision401kEquityRsusPaid LeaveParking

Key Requirements

  • •12+ years of progressive network engineering and architecture experience, with at least 5 years in a leadership role
  • •Large-scale data center expertise with 500+ switches across multi-campus environments
  • •Expert-level routing knowledge (BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, OSPF, ECMP, BFD)
  • •SDN and programmability experience with production-level work using an SDN controller and network programmability (NETCONF/YANG, RESTCONF or gNMI)
  • •Kubernetes networking proficiency (CNI selection, network policies, multi-cluster service mesh, BGP integration)
Experience:12+ yearsCloud infrastructureAI infrastructureData center networkingHyperscaleKubernetes
Skills:GitCI/CDTerraformAnsibleNornirGNMINetCONFYANGRESTCONFCalicoCiliumFlannelMultusBGPEVPNVXLANOSPFECMPBFDRDMA
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GitCI/CDTerraformAnsibleNornirGNMINetCONFYANGRESTCONFCalicoCiliumFlannelMultusBGPEVPNVXLANOSPFECMPBFDRDMA

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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