Senior Software Engineer, Platform Engineering
San Francisco, CAFull-time$170–205K/yrPosted 1 day agoStill listed today
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Job overview
Crusoe’s Platform Engineering team builds services that automate management of its cloud fleet. The Senior Software Engineer designs and ships modular microservices on underlying infrastructure, translating stakeholder requirements into platform capabilities that support feature delivery and revenue. The role works with GCP and managed Kubernetes alongside infrastructure and cross-functional teams, and owns the reliability and observability of the services it ships.
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Full job description
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 the Role Crusoe's Platform Engineering team builds the services that automate how we manage our cloud fleet. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design and ship modular microservices on top of our underlying infrastructure, turning stakeholder requirements into platform capabilities that directly drive feature delivery and revenue.
What You'll Be Working On
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Design, build, and operate microservices that automate fleet provisioning, lifecycle, and capacity management
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Extend existing platform services with new features that directly drive customer-facing delivery
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Turn ambiguous stakeholder requirements into clear, modular designs and drive them to production
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Build on GCP and managed Kubernetes, working closely with infrastructure and cross-functional teams
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Own the reliability and observability of the services you ship
What You'll Bring to the Team
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5+ years building and operating production backend or platform services
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Strong proficiency in at least one backend language such as Go, Python, Java, or C#
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Experience designing microservices and APIs (gRPC/REST) in distributed systems
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Hands-on experience with Postgres and event-driven systems such as Kafka
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A track record of leading projects end-to-end and raising the bar for engineers around you
Bonus Points
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Experience building on GCP, AWS, or managed Kubernetes
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Capacity management or fleet/hardware lifecycle experience
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Neocloud or GPU cloud infrastructure experience
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Experience with Go
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Observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana)
Benefits
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Industry competitive pay
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Restricted Stock Units in a fast growing, well-funded technology company
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Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents
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Employer contributions to HSA accounts
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Paid Parental Leave
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Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
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Teladoc
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401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary
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Generous paid time off and holiday schedule
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Cell phone reimbursement
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Tuition reimbursement
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Subscription to the Calm app
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MetLife Legal
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Company paid commuter benefit; $300 per month
Compensation Compensation will be paid in the range of $170,000 - $205,000. 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.
How this job compares
Set against the 41,225 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$170–205K/yr
- California median$165–245K/yr7,655 salary ranges
- US median$134–215K/yr32,917 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $188K, is 9% below the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the middle half of Software Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 9,529 open Software Engineer jobs in California and 41,225 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (33,478 postings).
- Education
- 14,294 of the 41,225 open Software Engineer jobs (35%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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