# Senior Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Availability Platform at crusoe

- Company: crusoe
- What the company does: Crusoe provides next-gen AI infrastructure and cloud compute using an energy-first approach. Deploy AI workloads at scale with reliable performance and 24/7 support. Backed by Founders Fund, Felicis and Air Street.
- Company website: https://www.crusoe.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA - US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $250K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-07
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Crusoe/a14be664-690f-4c05-aa5a-837f866fc30e?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/crusoe-senior-staff-software-engineer-cloud-availability-platform/

## About the role

Design and build core platform services: RBAC, tenancy, the workflow engine, policy engine, and state reconciler that drive fleet actions safely at scale. Design the public face of the platform: the API gateway, resource model, and versioned API contracts that fleet, SRE, and product teams build against. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 10+ years building distributed systems, control planes, or infrastructure platforms
- Strong software engineering skills in Go, Python, or Rust
- Experience building platforms other engineers consume: public or internal APIs, SDKs, or developer tooling with real adoption
- Depth in at least one of: workflow/orchestration engines (Temporal or similar), event-driven architectures, graph data models, policy/rules engines, or reconciliation-based control loops (Kubernetes operator patterns)
- Experience running what you build: you have carried a pager for a platform other teams depend on
- Systems thinking across the hardware/software boundary

Tags: Cloud Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/crusoe-senior-staff-software-engineer-cloud-availability-platform/