Senior Staff Software Engineer, Managed Platform Services
$245,000–$295,000 year
On-siteSan Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Senior Staff Software Engineer for Crusoe's Cloud Managed Platform Services. Anchor distributed systems depth across Crusoe Cloud’s Managed Platform Services, acting as a floating technical leader with end-to-end ownership of performance engineering and operational excellence to ensure platform-scale architectures without debt. Responsibilities include platform-wide performance benchmarks, identifying bottlenecks, resiliency design (HA, disaster recovery, graceful degradation, fault isolation), and driving cross-domain technical decisions across Control Plane, Storage & State, Edge & Agents, Data Pipeline, and Async & Metering. You will influence adjacent infrastructure teams, collaborate with product and engineering leadership to shape roadmaps, mentor engineers at scale, and foster a culture of responsiveness, collaboration, and execution. Required qualifications emphasize distributed systems depth, Go proficiency (strongly preferred), on-call customer-facing experience, cross-team influence, roadmap collaboration, mentorship, ownership, and clear communication.
Required Qualifications
- Distributed systems depth and operations at scale (sharding, replication, consensus, load balancing, concurrency)
- Proficiency in Go or a modern compiled language (Go strongly preferred)
- On-call experience on a customer-facing team
- Ability to influence technical decisions across multiple teams
- Experience collaborating with product and engineering leadership to scope ambiguous problems, plan incremental delivery, and tie technical decisions to business outcomes
- Mentorship at scale and building systems that improve others without direct involvement
- Strong ownership and accountability, proactive, solutions-oriented
Desired Qualifications
- Distributed systems depth and operations at scale (sharding, replication, consensus, load balancing, concurrency)
- Proficiency in Go or a modern compiled language (Go strongly preferred)
- On-call experience on a customer-facing team
- Ability to influence technical decisions across multiple teams
- Experience collaborating with product and engineering leadership to scope problems and plan delivery
- Mentorship at scale and building systems that multiply engineer effectiveness
- Strong ownership and accountability, with proactive problem-solving and cross-team collaboration
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management
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