Staff Software Engineer (Storage)

Join Crusoe's Cloud Storage team as a Staff Software Engineer. In this role, you will lead the development and execution of our storage strategy, driving innovation and performance improvements within our cloud storage infrastructure. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams, write and review code, guide the engineering team through architecture decisions, and mentor and grow engineers on your team. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to champion and lead initiatives across the engineering organization.

• Lead the development and execution of the storage strategy for the Cloud Storage team, driving innovation and performance improvements.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to define and execute features on the roadmap, writing and reviewing code, and participating in qualifications and rollouts.
• Mentor and grow engineers on your team, fostering an environment of teamwork and continuous learning, and championing initiatives across the engineering organization.

• Safety and Compliance: Must be able to pass a background check
• Software Engineering Fundamentals: Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Communication & Collaboration: Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Cloud Storage Expertise: Hands-on experience building and operating large scale, complex distributed cloud computing infrastructure products. Preferably, experience building redundant and fault tolerant storage solutions with backups, replication, encryption, and data protection mechanisms
• Technical Proficiency: Strong experience with at least one application programming language like Java or Go. Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tooling with any of Ansible, Chef, Puppet, and/or Terraform. Knowledge of Linux Systems Internals and computer architecture
• Storage Technologies: Hands-on experience with storage technologies such as NVMe, SSDs, and distributed storage systems
• Open Source Contributions: Demonstrated track record of contributions to the open source community (e.g., Ceph, GlusterFS, OpenEBS)
• Storage Protocols: In-depth understanding in at least one of block storage, object storage, and/or file storage. Familiarity with storage protocols like NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF
• System Programming: Proven experience in system programming with C, C++, and/or Rust
• Networking: An understanding of physical and software-defined networking concepts
• Education: Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field