Senior Software Engineer, Observability (Backend Engineer)

Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.

We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.

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.

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.

About This Role:

We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Observability team within the Cloud Infrastructure organization. This team builds the core platforms that power telemetry and operational insights across our rapidly growing cloud and data center infrastructure. In this role, you’ll design and build distributed systems that process massive volumes of real-time data, enabling engineers to understand system behavior, troubleshoot issues faster, and operate large-scale infrastructure with confidence.

What You’ll Be Working On:

• Maintain and manage core observability tools, including platforms for metrics, events, logs and tracing.

• Develop and operate data pipelines to move telemetry data from various sources to backend storage.

• Manage large-scale data ingestion and storage requirements for high-volume environments.

• Perform regular updates and software enhancements to ensure system stability and security.

• Participate in a standard on-call rotation to address production issues and perform root cause analysis.

• Work with other engineering teams to implement monitoring best practices and standardized tooling.

• Contribute to the long-term technical roadmap for the company's internal infrastructure.

What You’ll Bring to the Team:

• 5+ years of experience in software or systems engineering.

• Proficiency in Java or Go or Python for writing production-level code.

• Practical experience managing Kubernetes clusters in a production environment.

• Experience deploying and managing services using Helm and YAML-based configurations.

• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues within distributed system architectures.

• Experience participating in an on-call rotation for business-critical systems.

Bonus Points:

• Experience with common observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ClickHouse or Elasticsearch.

• Familiarity with Kafka or similar message queuing systems.

• Experience using Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.

• Knowledge of OpenTelemetry standards.

• Familiarity with GPU-based infrastructure or machine learning workloads.

Benefits:

• 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

• Teladoc

• 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

• MetLife Legal

• Company paid commuter benefit; $300 per month

Compensation:

Compensation will be paid in the range of $172,000 - $209,000 + 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.