Senior Staff Software Engineer, Managed Platform Services
Senior technical leader anchoring distributed systems depth across Crusoe Cloud's Managed Platform Services. Owns performance engineering, operational excellence, and long-term architecture for 10x scale across all platform domains.
About the job
What You’ll Be Working On
Performance Engineering — Platform-Wide
- Own performance at the platform level
- Establish consistent benchmarks across all domains
- Identify systemic bottlenecks before they become incidents
- Drive solutions that scale
Resiliency & Long-Term Architecture
- Ensure every platform domain is architected for long-term scale
- Build in HA, disaster recovery, graceful degradation, and fault isolation from the start
- Identify one-way door decisions early
Operational Excellence
- Set the standard for how the team operates at scale
- Drive down on-call noise
- Automate anything done more than once
- Build shared patterns and frameworks
Cross-Domain Technical Leadership
- Float across platform domains as the team's senior distributed systems authority
- Provide oversight on existing, inflight, and planned systems
- Contribute to technical decisions across Control Plane, Storage & State, Edge & Agents, Data Pipeline, and Async & Metering
Cross-Team Influence
- Serve as a senior technical voice in conversations with adjacent infrastructure teams
- Build credibility across org boundaries to influence outcomes
Roadmap & Product Collaboration
- Engage directly with product and engineering leadership in the earliest stages of scoping
- Help define quarterly roadmaps
- Ensure technical decisions are tied to business outcomes
Mentorship & Culture
- Actively coach senior engineers
- Introduce systems and frameworks that uplevel the entire team
- Identify early signs of burnout
- Create an environment where it is safe to fail
What You’ll Bring to the Team
Distributed Systems Depth
- Deep, hands-on expertise designing and operating distributed systems at scale
- Experience with sharding, replication, consensus, load balancing, and concurrency
Performance Engineering
- Proven track record of impact at the staff level and above
- Proficiency in Go or a modern compiled language (Go strongly preferred)
- Benchmark, profile, and fix issues
Operational Leadership
- On-call experience on a customer-facing team required
- Build runbooks, tune alerts, and reduce noise systematically
Cross-Functional Impact
- Proven ability to influence technical decisions made by other teams
- Resolved root causes of endemic problems that span org boundaries
Roadmap Collaboration
- Experience working directly with product and engineering leadership to scope ambiguous problems
- Plan incremental delivery and tie technical decisions to business outcomes
Mentorship at Scale
- Build systems that make other engineers better without direct involvement
Ownership
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability
- Proactive, solutions-oriented
Communication
- Exemplary communication skills
- Provide the right level of context, stay concise, check for understanding
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
Skills
Go, Distributed Systems, Performance Engineering, Sharding, Replication, Consensus, Load Balancing, Concurrency, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, On-Call, Runbooks, Alert Tuning
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