Senior Staff Network Engineer, Deployment

Crusoe
San Francisco, Seattle, Sunnyvale, Bellevue
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 12+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Mentoring","Communication","Problem-solving"]

Senior technical leader responsible for defining Crusoe’s global network deployment strategy, setting standards, and architecting an automation platform to bring new data centers and edge sites online at hyperscale pace. Leads cross-functional planning with Network Architecture, Supply Chain, and Data Center Ops, mentoring staff engineers while shaping hardware/vendor strategies and validation frameworks.

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Crusoe
3 months ago

Senior Staff Network Engineer, Deployment

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Job Summary

Senior technical leader responsible for defining Crusoe’s global network deployment strategy, setting standards, and architecting an automation platform to bring new data centers and edge sites online at hyperscale pace. Leads cross-functional planning with Network Architecture, Supply Chain, and Data Center Ops, mentoring staff engineers while shaping hardware/vendor strategies and validation frameworks.
Location: San Francisco, Seattle, Sunnyvale, Bellevue
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define the multi-quarter deployment roadmap for network infrastructure across data centers, edge sites, and backbone interconnects.
  • •Author and ratify internal RFCs and standards for physical and logical deployment (cabling, optics, fabric provisioning, validation, handoff).
  • •Partner with Network Architecture to shape scalable designs and ensure deployability at hyperscale pace.
  • •Define the deployment automation platform (ZTP, IaC, validation tooling) using Python, Ansible, and CI/CD to stage and validate hundreds of devices.
  • •Establish burn-in, SAT, and commissioning criteria across the fleet for zero-defect handovers to Operations.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kEquityRemote WorkParental LeaveLife Insurance

Key Requirements

  • •12+ years of network engineering experience with large-scale data center deployments in hyperscale, cloud, or ISP environments.
  • •Proven technical leadership including authoring standards, mentoring engineers, and driving multi-quarter initiatives.
  • •Experience with hyperscale operations (10K+ devices, multi-region fabric deployments) and physical layer standards (SMF/MMF, MPO/MTP) and data center power/cooling.
  • •Routing and switching fluency with Arista (EOS), Juniper (Junos), and NVIDIA/Mellanox in leaf-spine architectures.
  • •Automation expertise in Python and Ansible; familiarity with IaC and CI/CD patterns.
Experience:12+ yearsCloudData centerHyperscaleISPNetwork engineering
Skills:LeadershipMentoringCommunicationProblem-solving
Tech Stack:AristaEOSJunosNVIDIA/MellanoxBGPEVPN-VXLANLLDPPythonAnsibleIaCCI/CDOTDRFiberMPO/MTPSMFMMF

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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