# Staff Software Engineer, Security

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/7858ffc8-45e6-4058-9809-162dd3d49d11

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

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Salary: 215000 – 260000 USD per year

## Summary

Crusoe is seeking a systems engineer with a security-first mindset to architect and build the core infrastructure platforms that protect their AI energy infrastructure business. This role suits experienced distributed systems engineers comfortable with Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and identity/secrets management who want to move beyond traditional security roles into platform architecture.

_Our summary, not Crusoe's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), CI/CD, Go, HashiCorp Vault, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, Linux, Rust

## Required

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of professional software development experience
- 5+ years of hands-on production-grade programming in Go or Rust
- 4+ years of hands-on experience deploying and managing applications at scale on Kubernetes and public cloud
- Proven track record designing and operating high-QPS, fault-tolerant distributed systems
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS or GCP
- Deep familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code tooling
- Strong experience engineering architectures with complex data flows and fine-grained access controls
- Expert-level proficiency in distributed systems and infrastructure automation
- Deep operational experience managing Kubernetes at scale, troubleshooting cluster issues, and developing operators
- Demonstrated experience implementing identity and secrets management solutions like HashiCorp Vault and SPIFFE/SPIRE in production

## Nice to have

- Advanced understanding of authentication and authorization at scale in distributed systems
- Experience engineering security tools or telemetry platforms in large-scale AI/ML or high-performance computing environments
- Active contributor to open-source security engineering projects or frameworks

Apply on Crusoe's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Crusoe/2c0c11b9-b791-4c4b-9ec5-cc302522b5d5/application