# Senior Software Engineer, Developer Experience

**Company:** [Crusoe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/crusoe)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Sunnyvale, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $172k – $209k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Kubernetes, CI/CD, DevOps, SRE, Git, AI Tools, containerization, build tooling, automated testing
**Posted:** 2026-07-22

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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