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CrusoeCrusoeSan Francisco, CA

Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Senior Software Engineer on the Developer Experience team building internal tools, libraries, CI/CD pipelines, and paved paths to accelerate engineering productivity and eliminate toil across the full SDLC at Crusoe. Requires strong Go, Kubernetes, DevOps/SRE background and experience creating developer infrastructure.

172k – 209k/yr
On-site5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

What You’ll Be Working On

  • Engineering Acceleration: Partner with the broader organization to build paved paths that engineers love to use. Our paved paths are fast, reliable and broadly adopted across all of engineering.
  • Toil Elimination: Ruthlessly identify and automate away the friction and repetitive tasks that slow down the development process, keeping Crusoe engineers in a state of high productivity.
  • Library & Environment Creation: Develop the libraries, tools, and pre-production environments necessary for vetting service APIs and complex microservice interactions.
  • Ecosystem Integration: Unify internal tooling and vendor services to automate workflows, build operational efficiency, and optimize security across the development stack.
  • Lifecycle Innovation: Innovate across every stage of the development lifecycle, including source code management, build systems, code review, CI/CD pipelines, platform runtimes, and telemetry.
  • Culture of Quality: Lead efforts to establish a culture of continuous quality delivery that scales seamlessly as our engineering headcount and infrastructure grow.
  • System Optimization: Work diligently to build efficient systems and processes that serve as a force multiplier for the impact of every engineer around you.

What You’ll Bring to the Team

  • Previous experience building developer tools and/or infrastructure for engineering teams.
  • Expert ability to evaluate technical tradeoffs and understand how infrastructure decisions impact the daily productivity of the end-user (the developer).
  • Fluent knowledge of industry-standard AI tooling, build tooling, containerization, and open-source development frameworks.
  • A demonstrated passion for building empathetic developer and operator workflows that prioritize human productivity.
  • Professional experience managing or developing within Kubernetes clusters and a deep understanding of container orchestration.
  • Proven experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Release Engineering, or a similar productivity-focused discipline.
  • Deep understanding of automated testing infrastructure and how to integrate it into a seamless CI/CD pipeline.
  • Expertise in modern programming languages (specifically Go) and advanced proficiency in Git-based workflows (GitLab/GitHub).
  • A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related analytical field (or equivalent professional experience).

Bonus Points

  • Active involvement in the open-source community or a track record of staying current with recent industry advancements in developer productivity.
  • A background in solving complex, multi-layered technical problems and then successfully automating the resulting solutions.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Restricted Stock Units
  • Paid time off & paid holidays
  • 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

Compensation Range: $172425 - $209000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers.

Skills

GoKubernetesCI/CDDevOpsSREGitAI Toolscontainerizationbuild toolingautomated testing

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