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Staff Software Engineer, Systems Engineering Focus

Crusoe

San Francisco, CA · full time · Staff

$210,000 – $255,000

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What this role is

Crusoe seeks a systems-focused staff engineer to design and operate customer-facing managed services on their AI infrastructure platform, with particular responsibility for lightweight agent software deployed directly on customer systems. You'll balance building new features end-to-end with deep technical authority over edge computing architecture, Linux instrumentation, and cross-team collaboration.

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

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What they ask for

Required

  • Systems programming expertise in Python, Go, or Shell scripting
  • Experience instrumenting low-level system metrics and working with procfs
  • Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals and Helm packaging
  • On-call experience on a customer-facing team
  • Design for reliability, crash safety, and low resource footprint
  • Proactive identification and closure of monitoring and alerting gaps
  • Cross-domain technical leadership and mentorship capabilities
  • Concise communication and proactive stakeholder management

Nice to have

  • eBPF experience
  • Experience with pull-based metrics scraping architectures
  • Familiarity with hypervisor and lower-level platform layer concepts

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