Director of Engineering, Compute Cloud

Crusoe
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 285,000 - 335,000Function: Executive & General ManagementSkills: ["Problem-solving","Analytical thinking","Communication","Collaboration"]

Lead cloud compute engineering to build foundational IaaS offerings and advance a carbon-reducing, AI-focused cloud platform. Own architecture, design, and delivery for scalable, reliable GPU compute capabilities using VPC and cluster networking, while expanding compute and virtualization features. Mentor and grow the engineering team, drive reliability to strict SLOs/SLAs, and collaborate with cross-functional leaders to scale operations, hiring, and long-term roadmap execution.

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Director of Engineering, Compute Cloud

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Job Summary

Lead cloud compute engineering to build foundational IaaS offerings and advance a carbon-reducing, AI-focused cloud platform. Own architecture, design, and delivery for scalable, reliable GPU compute capabilities using VPC and cluster networking, while expanding compute and virtualization features. Mentor and grow the engineering team, drive reliability to strict SLOs/SLAs, and collaborate with cross-functional leaders to scale operations, hiring, and long-term roadmap execution.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Serve as team lead for cloud compute engineering, partnering with leadership to define and implement the long-term roadmap and strategy.
  • •Guide architecture decisions through design reviews, code reviews, and engineering implementation tasks.
  • •Scale the team by managing engineer onboarding, growing/hiring managers, and implementing team and org processes.
  • •Stay current on cloud software trends and incorporate insights to maintain market-leading offerings.
  • •Drive hiring, retention, and development strategies to attract and retain top engineering talent.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 285,000 - 335,000
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionRsusPaid LeaveParental LeaveHsa AccountLife Insurance401kMeal AllowanceCommuter BenefitsCell Stipend

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years of engineering management experience and 10+ years in software engineering.
  • •In-depth understanding of compute products, including CPU, GPU, and ASIC accelerators, and how customers consume them.
  • •Knowledge of hypervisors and virtualization technologies such as KVM, VMware ESXi, and Microsoft Hyper-V.
  • •Experience building and maintaining scalable, highly available fault-tolerant distributed systems and application architectures.
  • •Strong understanding of the full software development life cycle, including code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
Skills:Problem-solvingAnalytical thinkingCommunicationCollaboration
Tech Stack:Cloud computingIaaSVPCCluster networkingCPUGPUASIC acceleratorsKVMVMware ESXiMicrosoft Hyper-VLinuxQEMUContainerdKubernetesHypervisorsVirtualization

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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