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Senior Production Engineer, Managed Cloud

Senior Production Engineer responsible for designing, operating, and optimizing reliable managed AI cloud services focused on scaling LLM workloads, defining SLIs/SLOs, building observability, and resolving issues in distributed systems for Crusoe's AI infrastructure.

170k – 205k/yr
On-site5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

What You'll Be Working On

  • Design and operate reliable managed AI services with a focus on serving and scaling LLM workloads
  • Define, measure, and improve SLIs/SLOs to ensure performance and reliability targets are met
  • Collaborate with AI, platform, and infrastructure teams to optimize large-scale training and inference clusters
  • Automate observability by building telemetry and performance tuning strategies for latency-sensitive services
  • Investigate and resolve reliability issues in distributed AI systems using telemetry, logs, and profiling
  • Contribute to the architecture of next-generation distributed systems purpose-built for AI-first environments

What You'll Bring to the Team

  • Strong software engineering background — experience building production-grade systems beyond scripting or Bash
  • Demonstrated experience in distributed systems design and implementation
  • SRE mindset and experience (whether or not under the SRE title) including:
    • Defining and measuring SLIs/SLOs
    • Building monitoring and observability systems
    • Driving performance and reliability improvements
    • Designing fault-tolerant systems and automated testing strategies
  • Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Python, Go, Java, C++)
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes or container orchestration platforms
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment

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 per month

Compensation: $170,000 to $205,000 (includes Restricted Stock Units). Compensation to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Skills

Distributed SystemsKubernetesPythonGoJavaC++sli/sloObservabilitySRELLMstelemetryfault tolerance

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