Senior Production Engineer, SDN

Role description

Role Overview

The Senior Production Engineer, SDN will play a mission-critical role in maintaining the performance and reliability of Crusoe's AI-optimized cloud infrastructure. This role will ensure the availability, performance, and scalability of Crusoe's cloud networking services, which power compute-intensive, latency-sensitive workloads for AI and HPC use cases.

What You Will Do

In this role, you will build automation and self-healing tools to monitor and maintain Crusoe's software-defined networking (SDN) infrastructure. You will drive reliability initiatives focused on routing convergence, traffic engineering, policy enforcement, and fault isolation.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This role requires 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. You will be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other and wants to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of professional experience in PE, systems, or networking engineering
• Demonstrated experience automating network provisioning, configuration, and remediation
• Hands-on experience with SDN platforms and protocols (e.g., Open vSwitch, ONOS, Tungsten Fabric, Calico, Cilium, EVPN/VXLAN)
• Proficiency in a programming language such as Python, Go, or C
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and deployment tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet
• Deep knowledge of Linux internals with a focus on networking subsystems, kernel modules, and packet scheduling
• Familiarity with network protocols such as BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS, and network virtualization technologies
• Strong experience working with containerized workloads and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker), particularly around CNI plugins (Calico, Cilium) and Kubernetes-layer service networking
• Excellent incident response, troubleshooting, and documentation practices
• Experience with building and operating managed networking services at scale (AWS VPC, Transit Gateway, GCP VPC, Azure Virtual Network)
• Excellent communication skills

Benefits

• Industry competitive pay
• Restricted Stock Units in a fast growing, well-funded technology company
• Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents
• Employer contributions to HSA accounts
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
• Teladoc
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary
• Generous paid time off and holiday schedule
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Tuition reimbursement
• Subscription to the Calm app
• MetLife Legal
• Company paid commuter benefit; $300 per month