# Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Monitoring Service (Distributed Systems)

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/bfb75ed3-5e6c-4cdd-9fe5-5f88d98c693c

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

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

## Summary

Crusoe is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and operate the observability infrastructure that powers their cloud platform, building high-throughput systems for metrics and logs that serve customers running AI workloads at scale. This role suits experienced distributed systems builders who have solved real-world challenges in data pipelines and multi-tenant systems, and who want to lead architecture decisions and mentor other engineers.

_Our summary, not Crusoe's wording._

## Skills named

Apache Kafka, CI/CD, Go, Grafana Loki, Kubernetes, Microservices, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus

## Required

- 8+ years of software development experience
- Sustained ownership of production distributed systems
- Deep hands-on experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale
- Experience solving real problems in sharding, replication, consistency, load balancing, and concurrency
- Strong programming fundamentals in Go or another modern compiled language
- Comfort with Kubernetes, microservices, and CI/CD
- Design judgment at staff level: ability to scope ambiguous problems and surface non-functional requirements
- On-call experience on a customer-facing service
- Track record of driving technical outcomes across team boundaries
- Mentorship experience making engineers around you better

## Nice to have

- Experience building or operating large-scale data infrastructure such as time-series databases, log aggregation, streaming pipelines, or distributed tracing backends
- Familiarity with technologies like Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Kafka, or Vector

Apply on Crusoe's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Crusoe/8542fd03-9a05-4c2b-800e-3106ed14af6f/application