Senior Software Engineer, Observability
Crusoe
Location
San Francisco, CA - US
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
On-site
Department
Cloud Engineering
Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.
We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.
We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.
If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.
About This Role:
We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer to play a key role on our Observability team within the Cloud Infrastructure organization. This team owns the real-time observability platforms that underpin visibility, reliability, and operational insight across our cloud and data center infrastructure.
What You’ll Be Working On:
Maintain and manage core observability tools, including platforms for metrics, events, logs and tracing.
Develop and operate data pipelines to move telemetry data from various sources to backend storage.
Manage large-scale data ingestion and storage requirements for high-volume environments.
Perform regular updates and software enhancements to ensure system stability and security.
Participate in a standard on-call rotation to address production issues and perform root cause analysis.
Work with other engineering teams to implement monitoring best practices and standardized tooling.
Contribute to the long-term technical roadmap for the company's internal infrastructure.
What You’ll Bring to the Team:
5+ years of experience in software or systems engineering.
Proficiency in Java or Go or Python for writing production-level code.
Practical experience managing Kubernetes clusters in a production environment.
Experience deploying and managing services using Helm and YAML-based configurations.
Ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues within distributed system architectures.
Experience participating in an on-call rotation for business-critical systems.
Bonus Points:
Experience with common observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ClickHouse or Elasticsearch.
Familiarity with Kafka or similar message queuing systems.
Experience using Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.
Knowledge of OpenTelemetry standards.
Familiarity with GPU-based infrastructure or machine learning workloads.
Benefits:
Industry competitive pay
Restricted Stock Units in a fast growing, well-funded technology company
Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents
Employer contributions to HSA accounts
Paid Parental Leave
Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
Teladoc
401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary
Generous paid time off and holiday schedule
Cell phone reimbursement
Tuition reimbursement
Subscription to the Calm app
MetLife Legal
Company paid commuter benefit; $300/month
Compensation Range
Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $172,000 -$209,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicants knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.