Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Monitoring Service (Distributed Systems)

San Francisco, CA · full time · Staff

$215,000 – $260,000

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 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. The full posting is on their site.

Skills this role names

What they ask for

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