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Principal Production Engineer

Crusoe

San Francisco, CA · full time · Principal

$261,000 – $326,000

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 seeking a Principal Production Engineer to own the reliability and scalability of their vertically integrated AI infrastructure cloud platform, spanning compute, storage, and networking. This role suits experienced infrastructure leaders with deep systems knowledge who thrive in high-autonomy positions influencing technical direction across a fast-growing organization.

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What they ask for

Required

  • 15+ years of infrastructure, networking, or production engineering experience
  • Meaningful experience at internet-scale companies (cloud providers, CDNs, large platforms)
  • Strong systems fundamentals: Linux, distributed systems, storage, compute scheduling
  • Hands-on data center experience including power and thermal constraints
  • Ability to write code for automation and tooling
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Incident command experience with calm leadership under pressure

Nice to have

  • Deep networking expertise (BGP, OSPF, ECMP, load balancing, low-latency design)
  • HPC infrastructure experience (GPU clusters, job schedulers, high-bandwidth interconnects)
  • Prior principal or staff IC role influencing org-level technical strategy
  • Exposure to sustainability-focused or energy-constrained compute environments

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