Software Engineer II, Storage

Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence . As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster. We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI. We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services. If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe. About This Role The Cloud Storage team at Crusoe seeks a Software Engineer II to lead the development and execution of our storage strategy. This role will be instrumental in driving innovation and performance improvements within our cloud storage infrastructure. You will work extensively with cloud storage primitives, utilizing advanced storage engineering concepts to build and operate high-performance, scalable, and reliable storage solutions. What You’ll Be Working On

Participate in Engineering Efforts

Contribute to engineering projects on cloud storage features by collaborating with product and engineering to define and execute features on the roadmap.

Software Development

Write and deliver sustainable software, contribute to design documentation. Participate in qualifications and rollouts of software across the stack journeying from bare metal to user-facing APIs.

Technical Contribution

Participate in architecture discussions, design processes, design reviews, code reviews, and implementation tasks.

Continuous Learning

Collaborate with other engineers on your team, fostering an environment of teamwork and continuous learning.

Cross-Team Collaboration

Champion and participate in key initiatives across the engineering organization such as tech talks, open source development, and book clubs. What You’ll Bring to the Team

Cloud Storage Experience

Hands-on experience building and operating large scale, complex distributed cloud computing infrastructure products. Preferably, experience building redundant and fault tolerant storage solutions with backups, replication, encryption, and data protection mechanisms.

Software Engineering Fundamentals

Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

Technical Proficiency

Experience with at least one application programming language like Java or Go. Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tooling with any of Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and/or Terraform. Knowledge of Linux Systems Internals and computer architecture.

Communication & Collaboration

Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Safety and Compliance

Must be able to pass a background check. Bonus Points

Storage Technologies

Hands-on experience with storage technologies such as NVMe, SSDs, and distributed storage systems.

Storage Protocols

In-depth understanding in at least one of block storage, object storage, and/or file storage. Familiarity with storage protocols like NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF.

Open Source Contributions

Demonstrated track record of contributions to the open source community (e.g., Ceph, GlusterFS, OpenEBS).

System Programming

Proven experience in system programming with C, C++, and/or Rust.

Networking

An understanding of physical and software-defined networking concepts.

Education

Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

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 Range Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $136,000 -$160,500 a year + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicants knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.