# Principal Engineer, Conductor Platform (CAPE)

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

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/c97eecc8-e2a1-479b-baad-d7f0ca1049cc

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

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Principal
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Salary: 285000 – 335000 USD per year

## Summary

Principal-level systems architect role building Conductor, an operating system for AI datacenters that manages GPU fleets at scale. This suits deeply experienced infrastructure engineers who have architected distributed control planes and want to lead a 0→1 platform spanning 100,000+ GPUs across global sites.

_Our summary, not Crusoe's wording._

## Skills named

C++, GitOps, Go, Graph Databases, Rust

## Required

- 10+ years building infrastructure systems at scale
- Deep distributed systems design experience including state reconciliation and workflow engines
- Track record architecting multi-service platforms with defined APIs and data models
- Hands-on datacenter and GPU/HPC infrastructure knowledge including bare-metal provisioning and firmware management
- Experience designing large-scale observability platforms correlating compute, network, and storage signals
- Demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams and 0→1 environments
- Strong software engineering fundamentals in systems languages like Go, Rust, or C++

## Nice to have

- Graph data models for infrastructure topology
- Security attestation or SBOM tooling experience

Apply on Crusoe's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Crusoe/660c98be-40a6-4697-9e0c-b7db87c5c13a/application