Staff Network Production Engineer
Crusoe — San Francisco, California, United States · In-Person · Staff+ · $195k - $235k/yearly
Role description
Role Overview
Crusoe 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.
What You Will Do
Production Reliability: Help own uptime across Crusoe's global edge, backbone, data center, and GPU cluster network, directly supporting AI workloads at scale. Incident Response: Lead and contribute to end-to-end response for high-severity network events, including mitigation, stakeholder communication, and postmortem documentation.
Why It Might Be a Fit
The 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.
Requirements
- 8+ years of production network engineering experience with a focus on operations, incident response, and reliability in large-scale or internet-scale environments.
- Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools including streaming telemetry, SNMP, NetFlow/sFlow, Grafana, Prometheus, and ThousandEyes.
- Experience operating RDMA/RoCE lossless fabrics for GPU or HPC workloads, including familiarity with PFC, ECN, and DCQCN tuning.
- Expert hands-on knowledge of BGP, EVPN-VXLAN, IS-IS, OSPF, MPLS, QoS, and TCP/IP in production data center environments.
- Proficiency with Arista (EOS) and Juniper (Junos) platforms in leaf-spine CLOS architectures across multi-vendor environments.
- Python proficiency for writing auto-remediation scripts, diagnostic tooling, and operational automation.
- Comfort operating large device fleets across multi-region environments with on-call responsibility, including experience as an escalation point during critical events.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
- Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
- Employer contributions to HSA account
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
- Professional development & tuition reimbursement
- Mental health & wellness support
- Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
- Volunteer time off
- Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
- Daily meals allowance