# Senior Staff Software Engineer, Storage

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/13da36c0-ef18-402a-a489-c61e82f32c6b

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

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior Staff
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Salary: 240000 – 310000 USD per year

## Summary

Crusoe seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to architect and lead the long-term technical strategy for their cloud storage infrastructure, bridging high-performance hardware with globally distributed, S3-competitive object stores. This role suits someone with deep distributed systems expertise who thrives setting technical direction and solving ambiguous infrastructure challenges at scale.

_Our summary, not Crusoe's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka, C++, Go, iSCSI Configuration, JAX, Microsoft Azure, MongoDB, PyTorch, Redis, Rust, TensorFlow

## Required

- 12+ years building and operating large-scale distributed cloud infrastructure
- System programming in C, C++, Go, or Rust
- Deep knowledge of distributed state and data protection at petabyte scale
- Troubleshooting and performance tuning across the full IO path
- Professional software engineering practices across the full development lifecycle
- Ability to lead technical initiatives and design reviews across the organization

## Nice to have

- Public cloud expertise (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI)
- Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX) and MLOps
- Experience with high-throughput I/O architectures like DAOS or SPDK
- Background in RDMA and high-performance networking (SmartNICs, RoCEv2)
- Experience with highly available systems (Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka)
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems fundamentals (CAP Theorem, Paxos/RAFT, consistent hashing, sharding)
- Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- Track record of open-source contributions (Ceph, GlusterFS, Lustre, Spectrum Scale, OpenEBS)

Apply on Crusoe's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Crusoe/f28a39ed-6b2e-42ff-9f3a-23cab436abbe/application