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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.\nWe'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.\nWe'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.\nIf 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.\nAbout the Role:\nAs a Senior Software Engineer on our storage team, you'll be joining our core engineering team to design, build, and optimize our next-generation cloud storage products. We're looking for a hands-on engineer with deep expertise in building storage systems. You will be responsible for building highly performant, reliable, and scalable distributed storage systems that are critical to our infrastructure and our customers' AI/HPC workloads.\nWhat You'll Be Working On:\nBuilding Our Multi-Petabyte Cloud Storage Platform\nBuilding core components of our foundational storage products, purpose built for high performance AI and ML workloads\n\nContributing to distributed file, block and object storage products, with a focus on filesystem based solutions\n\nSystem Design & Architecture\nDesign and implement high-performance, scalable, and resilient storage architectures that are highly extensible\n\nProposing and prototyping novel strategies to scale performance and system throughput for our most demanding customer workloads\n\nBuilding observability, metrics and tooling for our services and fleet\n\nHigh Velocity Problem Solving\nTroubleshooting and resolving unique and complex distributed systems problems only seen at the scale we operate at\n\nProvide ongoing support for production systems, and customer workloads including troubleshooting, performance tuning, and incident response\n\nCross-functional Collaboration\nFoster strong collaboration with other engineering teams (e.g., Software Infrastructure, Product) and cross-functional departments\n\nSingle threaded ownership and representation of the storage team in business critical initiatives across the company\n\nWhat You'll Bring to the Team:\nHands-on proficiency in modern software development best practices, and practical experience in languages like Go, Java, C/C++, or Rust\n\nExtensive experience developing multi-tenant, cloud scale distributed storage infrastructure software and systems\n\nExperience contributing to at least one or more of the following storage products: File (e.g., NFS, SMB, Lustre), Object, or Block Storage (e.g., NVMe, iSCSI)\n\nA strong background in high performance filesystem based products, VFS and linux filesystems (e.g., ext4, XFS, ZFS)\n\nProficiency working with Linux and its storage subsystems.\n\nKnowledge of monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana), log analysis, distributed tracing and debugging\n\nBonus Points\nExperience with AI/HPC storage solutions, such as Parallel Filesystems or petabyte+ scale Object Storage.\n\nFamiliarity with networking technologies like RDMA and Infiniband.\n\nFamiliarity with modern storage technologies (e.g GPU Direct Storage, F2FS, SPDK etc)\n\nPrior experience with Nvidia SuperNIC DPUs for storage optimization\n\nPrior experience in Storage Virtualization & Orchestration, volume placement strategies and distributed metadata management\n\nResearch publications or open-source contributions to storage-related projects.\n\nBenefits:\nCompetitive compensation and equity packages\n\nRestricted Stock Units\n\nPaid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs\n\nComprehensive health, dental & vision insurance\n\nEmployer contributions to HSA account\n\nPaid parental leave\n\nPaid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability\n\nProfessional development & tuition reimbursement\n\nMental health & wellness support\n\nCommuter benefits (parking & transit)\n\nCell phone stipend\n\n401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary\n\nVolunteer time off\n\nGlobal travel insurance & emergency assistance\n\nDaily meals allowance\n\nAdditional perks & programs specific to location\n\nCompensation Range\nCompensation will be paid in the range of up to $170,000-$190,000 + Bonus. 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