# Senior Engineering Manager, SDN Control Plane

Hiring organization: [Crusoe](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/crusoe)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/0795f6d1-65ba-4393-b202-32e41a21ebba

Listed on Crusoe's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Salary: 250000 – 300000 USD per year

## Summary

Lead the design and operation of the software-defined networking control plane that manages virtual networking across Crusoe's large-scale GPU clusters. This role suits experienced distributed systems managers who want hands-on technical leadership on infrastructure serving AI workloads at scale.

_Our summary, not Crusoe's wording._

## Skills named

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Go, Kubernetes

## Required

- 10+ years distributed systems or cloud networking engineering experience
- 5-7+ years managing senior/staff-level engineers
- Deep knowledge of SDN and network virtualization including overlay networking, VPC constructs, and routing protocols
- Hands-on experience building large-scale control planes with state reconciliation and API design
- Strong understanding of operating multi-tenant cloud services with focus on SLOs and reliability

## Nice to have

- Experience with DPU or SmartNIC-programmed dataplanes
- Experience with cloud load balancing or NAT at scale
- Network security policy engine experience
- Open-source contributions to OVN, OVS, or SDN projects

Apply on Crusoe's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Crusoe/2844eeaf-48ea-4273-8e12-f96c33164050/application