Staff Software Engineer (Crusoe Container Registry)

• We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help make Crusoe Cloud’s container registry fast and reliable as the platform grows
• The registry sits on the critical path of every deployment and job launch on our platform, and its performance directly affects how quickly customer workloads come online
• You’ll own the evolution of the registry, drive its scaling roadmap, and be accountable for how it performs, degrades, and recovers in production
• Own the technical direction: Set the architecture and scaling roadmap for Crusoe Cloud’s container registry. Establish the patterns and standards the team builds against, and stay accountable for scalability, reliability, and maintainability over the long haul
• Ship end-to-end: Drive high impact changes from design through production, and stay accountable for their scalability, reliability and maintainability
• Push performance limits: Drive performance strategy across the system and get ahead of demand curves before they reach customers. Make the architecture tradeoffs that keep the registry dependable as it grows
• Multiply the team: Raise the team’s technical bar through architecture, design, and code review, and through mentorship, while staying hands-on on complex challenges. Make the engineers around you more effective, not just yourself
• Drive technical strategy across teams: Influence designs across adjacent teams, align with product and other partners on priorities and tradeoffs, and lead the technical response when things break
• This is a full-time position

Benefits

• Health & wellbeing: Comprehensive health benefits designed to support your overall wellness
• Time away: Paid time off for vacations, family bonding, and unexpected needs
• 401(k) match: Build your financial future with our 401(k) matching program
• Mental wellness: Resources and support for your emotional wellbeing and navigating life’s challenges

• We’re looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services
• A customer-centric mindset: You keep the customers top of mind, and you can translate their needs into actionable changes in the codebase
• A performance-driven mindset: You set performance strategy and have deep, practical experience profiling, benchmarking, and optimizing distributed systems, with sound judgment about latency, throughput, caching, and resource tradeoffs at scale
• Collaboration and communication: You are comfortable working across functions to align on priorities and to explain technical tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical partners alike
• A track record of system level ownership: You’ve owned critical systems from design through production and carried them through operational pressure. You’ve made difficult calls under conflicting requirements and visible risk, and stood behind them
• Distributed systems at scale: You have proven success designing, scaling, and hardening distributed systems, all while keeping them reliable under high-load production environments
• Technical & infrastructure proficiency: You have strong fundamentals in microservices and cloud-native infrastructure technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) alongside languages like Go, Rust, Java, or C++
• Thrive in ambiguity: You thrive on transforming ambiguous performance problems into measured action and durable fixes. You work ahead of demand, identifying constraints before they reach customers
• Mentorship and force multiplication: You’ve grown other engineers. You’ve mentored teammates on the team’s systems, helped newer engineers find their footing, raised the team’s technical bar, and contributed to hiring
• Experience: You have 8+ years of professional software development experience, including time spent building and operating distributed systems but we care more about what you’ve built than the exact number
• We know great engineers come from many different paths. If you’re excited about this work but don’t match every point below, we’d still love to hear from you. What you’ve built and how you think matters more to us than a perfect checklist
• If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe
• Experience building container registry products
• Familiarity with the OCI image and distribution specs
• Experience with storage or caching systems at scale