# Software Engineer, Control Plane
**Company:** [Crusoe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/crusoe)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Salary:** $136K-$161K
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Go, Kubernetes, Postgres, Docker, Terraform, Rust, C++, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Iaas
**Posted:** 2026-04-16
> Build and scale microservices for Crusoe Cloud's control plane, managing AI-optimized compute, network, and storage resources. Requires 3+ years experience with Go (preferred), Kubernetes, Postgres, and distributed systems expertise.
## Job Description
## 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.
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