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Crusoe

Crusoe

Software Engineering
San Francisco, CA, USA
USD 136k-185k / year + Equity
Posted on Apr 7, 2026

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 the Role:

As a Software Engineer at Crusoe, you'll join a growing, diverse, and mission-driven team working at the forefront of distributed system technologies across cloud computing. You'll have the opportunity to work on a range of projects across our Platform and our Cloud teams. Your expertise will be instrumental in the design and scaling of our carbon-reducing operating model, as well as the management of critical hardware, software and network components of our computing operations. You'll collaborate with other engineers to build and maintain scalable and highly available fault-tolerant distributed systems at scale, build products and tools from the ground up that will be used by customers around the world, triage bugs and solve issues in production, and work with product owners and other stakeholders to iterate on new features.

If you have a passion for the energy industry, technology, environmental stewardship and innovative solutions, we want to hear from you.

What You'll Be Working On:

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems

  • Build internal and customer-facing products and tools from the ground up

  • Triage bugs and resolve issues in production environments

  • Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to iterate on new features

  • Participate in code reviews and uphold engineering best practices

What You'll Bring to the Team:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field required; Master's degree strongly preferred

  • 1–3 years of professional software engineering experience

  • Proficiency in Python or Go

  • Strong CS fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design, and systems programming

  • Demonstrated ability to triage bugs and solve complex technical issues in a production environment

  • Experience optimizing performance of large-scale, high-volume systems

  • Experience writing automated tests

  • Familiarity with React, TypeScript, ES6, WebSockets

  • Familiarity with modern CI/CD practices and build systems (GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, GitHub Actions)

  • Familiarity with modern infrastructure tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, CloudFormation, or Terraform

  • Familiarity with concurrency, multi-threading, and synchronization

  • Familiarity with Unix/Linux environments

Benefits:

  • Competitive compensation and equity packages

  • Restricted Stock Units

  • Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs

  • Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance

  • Employer contributions to HSA account

  • Paid parental leave

  • Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability

  • Professional development & tuition reimbursement

  • Mental health & wellness support

  • Commuter benefits (parking & transit)

  • Cell phone stipend

  • 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary

  • Volunteer time off

  • Global travel insurance & emergency assistance

  • Daily meals allowance

  • Additional perks & programs specific to location

Compensation Range

Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $136,000 - $185,000 + 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.