Production Engineer, Storage
Crusoe
San Francisco, CA, USA · Sunnyvale, CA, USA
USD 183k-210k / year + Equity
Posted on Jun 4, 2025
Crusoe is building the World’s Favorite AI-first Cloud infrastructure company. We’re pioneering vertically integrated, purpose-built AI infrastructure solutions trusted by Fortune 500 companies to power their most advanced AI applications. Crusoe is redefining AI cloud infrastructure, with a mission to align the future of computing with the future of the climate. Our AI platform is recognized as the "gold standard" for reliability and performance. Our data centers are optimized for AI workloads and are powered by clean, renewable energy.
Be part of the AI revolution with sustainable technology at Crusoe. Here, you'll drive meaningful innovation, make a tangible impact, and join a team that’s setting the pace for responsible, transformative cloud infrastructure.
About This Role:
At Crusoe Energy Systems, our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team plays a mission-critical role in maintaining the performance and reliability of our AI-optimized cloud infrastructure. The Storage-focused SRE role is responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, and scalability of Crusoe’s cloud storage products and services, which power compute-intensive, latency-sensitive workloads for AI and HPC use cases. This role directly supports our vertically integrated, sustainable cloud platform by building and optimizing distributed, fault-tolerant storage systems at scale.
What You'll Be Working On:
In this role, you will build automation and self-healing tools to monitor and maintain Crusoe’s distributed cloud storage infrastructure, which includes block, file, and object storage systems. You will drive reliability initiatives focused on data replication, encryption, backup and restore strategies, and robust failover mechanisms. Collaborating closely with storage engineers, you will help implement and maintain high-performance NVMe- and SSD-backed volumes that support large-scale AI compute clusters. Your responsibilities will also include supporting user-facing storage services with a focus on availability, performance tuning, and adherence to error budgets. You’ll investigate and resolve storage-related incidents using deep telemetry, logs, and performance profiling, while also partnering with hardware and kernel teams to diagnose low-level I/O issues and optimize I/O paths, cache policies, and file systems. Additionally, you will contribute to the architecture of fault-tolerant, scalable storage backends tailored for AI-first cloud environments.
What You’ll Bring to the Team:
5+ years of professional experience in SRE, systems, or storage engineering.
Hands-on experience with distributed storage systems (e.g., Ceph, GlusterFS, OpenEBS) and deep understanding of object, block, and file storage paradigms.
Proficiency in a programming language such as Python, Go, Java, or C.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code and deployment tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
Deep knowledge of Linux internals with a focus on I/O subsystems, memory management, and storage scheduling.
Familiarity with storage protocols like NFS, SMB, iSCSI, or NVMe-oF.
Strong experience working with containerized workloads and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).
Excellent incident response, troubleshooting, and documentation practices.
Experience with building and operating managed services at scale such as object, file and block storage (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Excellent communication skills
Must be able to pass a background check
Embody the Company values
Bonus Points:
Contributions to open-source storage projects or the Linux storage stack.
Experience with hybrid storage models across on-prem and cloud environments.
Familiarity with high-throughput network topologies for storage backplanes (e.g., RoCE, RDMA, InfiniBand)..
Benefits:
Hybrid work schedule
Industry competitive pay
Restricted Stock Units in a fast growing, well-funded technology company
Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents
Employer contributions to HSA accounts
Paid Parental Leave
Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
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401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary
Generous paid time off and holiday schedule
Cell phone reimbursement
Tuition reimbursement
Subscription to the Calm app
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Company paid commuter benefit; $50 per pay period
Compensation:
Compensation will be paid in the range of $183,000 - $210,000 per year + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.