Staff Engineer, Customer Insights & Alerts

San Francisco, CA · full time · Lead / Staff / Principal

$210,000 – $255,000

Listed on Crusoe’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

Crusoe is hiring a Staff Engineer to build the detection and alerting systems that turn infrastructure signals into customer-facing insights, combining anomaly detection, heuristics, and machine learning at global scale. This role suits experienced backend engineers with deep expertise in detection pipelines and a track record of shipping complex systems in production environments.

Our summary, not Crusoe’s wording. The full posting is on their site.

Skills this role names

What they ask for

Required

5+ years shipping production software in compiled or systems languages (Go, Rust, C++, Java, or similar)
Deep experience building anomaly detection systems, heuristics-based rule engines, or ML/RL systems for infrastructure or data-intensive domains
Strong foundation in distributed systems and scalable backend architecture
Expertise with time-series data, telemetry pipelines, and observability primitives
Ability to navigate precision/recall trade-offs and maintain detection accuracy as systems scale
Clear communication of complex logic to both technical and non-technical partners

Nice to have

Experience with GPU profiling tools (Nsight, NCCL Inspector) or hardware-level infrastructure diagnostics
Background in observability platforms or products
Shipped production agentic applications such as LLM-based agents for triage or root-cause analysis
Reinforcement learning applied to operational or infrastructure problems
Large-scale fleet management or cloud infrastructure experience
Passion for building team culture and engineering quality of life