C
$240,000 – $310,000
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What this role is
Crusoe is hiring a Staff-level architect to lead the technical strategy and design of their distributed storage infrastructure, which bridges high-performance NVMe hardware with S3-compatible object storage serving AI workloads. This role suits someone with deep expertise in distributed systems and performance optimization who wants to shape a multi-year technical roadmap at a pre-IPO infrastructure company.
Our summary, not Crusoe’s wording. The full posting is on their site.
Skills this role names
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Apache Cassandra
- Apache Kafka
- C++
- Go
- iSCSI Configuration
- JAX
- Microsoft Azure
- MongoDB
- PyTorch
- Redis
- Rust
- TensorFlow
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What they ask for
Required
- 12+ years building and operating large-scale distributed cloud infrastructure
- Expertise in troubleshooting and performance tuning across the IO stack
- Deep knowledge of distributed state management and data protection at scale
- Mastery of professional software engineering practices and full SDLC
- Ability to lead technical initiatives and design reviews across storage, networking, and virtualization
Nice to have
- Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI)
- Familiarity with AI/ML frameworks and MLOps
- Background in high-throughput I/O architectures like DAOS or SPDK
- Expertise in RDMA and high-performance networking including SmartNICs and RoCEv2
- Experience with highly available distributed systems like Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, or Kafka
- Strong theoretical knowledge of CAP Theorem, Paxos/RAFT, consistent hashing, and sharding strategies
- Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- Track record of open-source contributions to projects like Ceph, GlusterFS, or Lustre