Software Engineer, Control Plane

What You'll Be Working On

• Develop and Maintain Microservices: Build and optimize the scalable services that power the Crusoe Cloud control plane and manage complex virtualized resource lifecycles.
• Implement IaaS Primitives: Contribute to the backend logic that ensures high throughput and low-latency API responses for large-scale cluster provisioning.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Networking, and Storage teams to implement features that create differentiated cloud solutions for AI/ML customers.
• Operational Excellence: Improve the observability, testing coverage, and reliability of our distributed systems through clean code and robust CI/CD practices.
• Technical Growth: Participate in rigorous design reviews, contribute to team documentation, and help onboard new engineers to the team’s codebase.

What You'll Bring to the Team

• Feature Implementation: Write high-quality, production-ready code in Go to handle resource state transitions and API orchestration.
• Design for Reliability: Contribute to design docs for multi-region control plane services, focusing on edge cases and failure modes.
• Scaling & Optimization: Help identify and resolve bottlenecks in our resource orchestration layer using tools like Kubernetes, Go, and Postgres.
• Production Support: Work alongside SREs to investigate production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement long-term fixes to harden our environment.

3+ years of software development experience with proficiency in a modern compiled language—Go is highly preferred, but Rust or C++ are also valued.

Experience building and deploying distributed systems or managed cloud services in a production environment.

Working knowledge of the modern infrastructure stack, including Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and Postgres.

A solid understanding of how cloud resources (Compute, Network, Storage) are abstracted and managed.

A "product-minded" approach to engineering, with the ability to understand how technical decisions impact the end-user experience.

Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical trade-offs within your immediate team.

Compensation

Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $136,000 - $160,500 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant's knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.