# Software Engineer II, Crusoe Container Registry

**Company:** [Crusoe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/crusoe)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $140k – $165k/yr
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Go, Rust, Java, C++, Microservices, oci, storage systems, caching systems
**Posted:** 2026-07-28

> Software Engineer II building and optimizing Crusoe Cloud's managed container registry for AI training and inference workloads. Focus on distributed systems performance, reliability, observability, and end-to-end feature ownership in a cloud-native environment.

## Job Description

## What You'll Be Working On
- Build at scale: Contribute to and own components behind Crusoe Cloud's managed container registry, serving the images that training and inference workloads run on.
- Ship end-to-end: Own features across the full lifecycle, design, implementation, testing, rollout, and operation.
- Tackle hard problems: Take on the hard challenges of building a cloud provider, bringing clarity to ambiguous problems and landing simple, pragmatic designs.
- Collaborating across teams: Partner with product and platform teams to align on solutions that serve customers and operations alike.
- Build for reliability: Write and ship sustainable software with observability baked in, so the platform stays maintainable as it grows, issues surface early, and root causes are quick to find.
- Raise the bar operationally: Spot and act on opportunities to make the team's systems easier, safer, and faster to run.

## What You'll Bring to the Team
- Distributed systems fundamentals: Solid grasp of how fault-tolerant distributed systems behave under high load, with experience contributing to such services in production.
- A performance mindset: Consider performance in everything you do, with hands-on experience profiling and benchmarking real systems, as well as reasoning about the tradeoffs.
- A customer-centric mindset: Keep the end-user top of mind, championing decisions that make the platform more reliable for the people who use it.
- Technical & infrastructure proficiency: Strong fundamentals in microservices and cloud-native infrastructure technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) alongside languages like Go, Rust, Java, or C++.
- Collaboration and communication: Comfortable working across functions to align on priorities and to explain technical tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical partners alike.
- Mentorship: Interest in helping new teammates onboard onto team systems, as well as helping engineers find their footing and grow.
- Experience: 2-4 years of professional software development experience (we care more about what you’ve built than the exact number).

## Bonus Points
- Familiarity with the OCI image and distribution specs
- Experience building container registry products
- Experience with storage or caching systems at scale

## 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
Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $140,000-$165,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant's knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

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