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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 This Role:\nCrusoe Cloud is seeking a Staff Network Production Operations Engineer to help own production reliability across our global network infrastructure, including edge, backbone, data center fabric, and GPU cluster interconnects. This is a hands-on production ownership role focused on incident response, root cause analysis, and operational excellence initiatives that keep our hyperscale AI infrastructure running at scale. Your work will directly affect the availability of AI workloads running across thousands of GPUs worldwide.\nThe ideal candidate is a seasoned network engineer with deep operational experience in large-scale environments who thrives in high-pressure situations and takes pride in keeping systems healthy. You'll contribute to defining SLIs and SLOs, improving observability tooling, building automation to reduce toil, and mentoring peers - all while serving as a key escalation point during high-severity network events.\nWhat You'll Be Working On:\nProduction Reliability: Help own uptime across Crusoe's global edge, backbone, data center, and GPU cluster network, directly supporting AI workloads at scale.\n\nOperational Automation: Build and maintain Python-based tooling to reduce toil, automate common remediation workflows, and accelerate mean time to resolution across the operations org.\n\nAutomate Incident Response: Develop scripts and tooling that speed up detection, triage, and mitigation during high-severity network events, and contribute directly to the response itself, including stakeholder communication and postmortem documentation.\n\nAutomate Root Cause Analysis: Build tooling to surface systemic issues faster during RCAs, and drive remediation plans tracked through to closure.\n\nObservability Automation: Write automation on top of Crusoe's monitoring stack (streaming telemetry, SNMP, NetFlow, Kentik, Grafana, Prometheus, ThousandEyes) to reduce manual triage and surface actionable signal faster.\n\nOperational Standards: Author and maintain runbooks, escalation playbooks, and SOPs, with an eye toward what can be scripted or automated rather than performed manually.\n\nSLI/SLO Contribution: Partner with Architecture and SRE teams to define and track network reliability metrics, and build the automated dashboards and alerting that back them.\n\nMentorship: Provide technical guidance to Senior engineers, particularly around automation practices and reducing operational toil, and contribute to a culture of operational excellence.\n\nWhat You'll Bring to the Team:\n8+ years of production network engineering experience with a focus on operations, incident response, and reliability in large-scale or internet-scale environments.\n\nStrong Python and scripting proficiency: comfortable writing diagnostic tooling, auto-remediation scripts, and automation pipelines from scratch, not just modifying existing scripts.\n\nHands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools including streaming telemetry, SNMP, NetFlow/sFlow, Grafana, Prometheus, and ThousandEyes, and the ability to script against their APIs.\n\nExperience operating RDMA/RoCE lossless fabrics for GPU or HPC workloads, including familiarity with PFC, ECN, and DCQCN tuning.\n\nExpert hands-on knowledge of BGP, EVPN-VXLAN, IS-IS, OSPF, MPLS, QoS, and TCP/IP in production data center environments.\n\nProficiency with Arista (EOS) and Juniper (Junos) platforms in leaf-spine CLOS architectures across multi-vendor environments.\n\nComfort operating large device fleets across multi-region environments with on-call responsibility, including experience as an escalation point during critical events.\n\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\n\nBonus Points:\nExperience with NVIDIA/Mellanox networking platforms in GPU cluster environments.\n\nFamiliarity with Kentik or Arbor for traffic analysis and DDoS visibility.\n\nExperience defining or contributing to SLIs and SLOs in partnership with SRE or product teams.\n\nExposure to operating 10K+ device fleets across hyperscale or cloud environments.\n\nBackground contributing to post-incident learning programs or operational excellence initiatives org-wide.\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 $195,000 - $235,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant's knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.\nCrusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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