Senior Production Engineer, SDN

What You'll Be Working On

• Build automation and self-healing tools to monitor and maintain Crusoe's software-defined networking (SDN) infrastructure for edge, backbone, and data center connectivity.
• Drive reliability initiatives focused on routing convergence, traffic engineering, policy enforcement, and fault isolation.
• Implement and maintain high-performance virtualized networking services such as overlays, service meshes, and programmable data planes to support large-scale AI compute clusters.
• Support user-facing networking services with focus on availability, latency reduction, performance tuning, and adherence to error budgets.
• Investigate and resolve networking-related incidents using deep telemetry, flow logs, and packet-level analysis.
• Partner with hardware and kernel teams to optimize network stacks, drivers, and control planes.
• Contribute to the architecture of fault-tolerant, scalable SDN backends for AI-first cloud environments.

What You'll Bring to the Team

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 5+ years of professional experience in Production Engineering, systems, or networking engineering.
• Demonstrated experience automating network provisioning, configuration, and remediation (hands-on rack-and-stack or manual configuration not sufficient).
• Hands-on experience with SDN platforms and protocols (e.g., Open vSwitch, ONOS, Tungsten Fabric, Calico, Cilium, EVPN/VXLAN).
• Proficiency in a programming language such as Python, Go, or C.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and deployment tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
• Deep knowledge of Linux internals with focus on networking subsystems, kernel modules, and packet scheduling.
• Familiarity with network protocols such as BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, and network virtualization technologies.
• Strong experience working with containerized workloads and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Docker), particularly CNI plugins (Calico, Cilium) and Kubernetes-layer service networking.
• Excellent incident response, troubleshooting, and documentation practices.
• Experience building and operating managed networking services at scale (e.g., AWS VPC, Transit Gateway, GCP VPC, Azure Virtual Network).
• Excellent communication skills.
• Embody the Company values.

Benefits

• Industry competitive pay.
• Restricted Stock Units in a fast growing, well-funded technology company.
• Health insurance package options (HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental).
• 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

Compensation will be paid in the range of $170,000 - $205,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.