Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

About This Role

The Developer Experience (DevX) team is a high-impact group charged with fueling the future of Crusoe’s engineering muscle. We’re responsible for critical developer tools and infrastructure that are used by all of Crusoe engineering. We focus on accelerating development while ensuring we keep a high bar for quality.

This role holds a broad, mission-critical charter: to empower every Crusoe engineer to deliver positive change to customers quickly, safely, and efficiently. As a Staff Software Engineer you will need to work through ambiguity to justify investments to improve developer experience across the entire SDLC; tackling everything from local development, build optimization, code review/CI experience and AI tools.

You will play a critical role in shaping our technical direction, communicating a strategic vision, and fostering a company-wide culture of engineering excellence. By partnering with stakeholders across the organization, you will define the future state of Crusoe’s evolving software development efforts and eliminate the friction that stands between an engineer and their "flow state." This is a full-time position for a visionary builder who wants to influence the long-term technical objectives of a company aligning the future of computing with the future of the climate.

What You’ll Be Working on

Engineering Acceleration: Partner with the broader organization to build paved paths that engineers love to use. Our paved paths are fast, reliable and broadly adopted across all of engineering.

• Toil Elimination: Ruthlessly identify and automate away the friction and repetitive tasks that slow down the development process, keeping Crusoe engineers in a state of high productivity.
• Library & Environment Creation: Develop the libraries, tools, and pre-production environments necessary for vetting service APIs and complex microservice interactions.
• Ecosystem Integration: Unify internal tooling and vendor services to automate workflows, build operational efficiency, and optimize security across the development stack.
• Lifecycle Innovation: Innovate across every stage of the development lifecycle, including source code management, build systems, code review, CI/CD pipelines, platform runtimes, and telemetry.
• Culture of Quality: Lead efforts to establish a culture of continuous quality delivery that scales seamlessly as our engineering headcount and infrastructure grow.
• System Optimization: Work diligently to build efficient systems and processes that serve as a force multiplier for the impact of every engineer around you.

What You’ll Bring to the Team

• Experience: Previous experience leading the development of developer tools and/or infrastructure for engineering teams
• Technical Decision-Making: Expert ability to evaluate technical tradeoffs and understand how infrastructure decisions impact the daily productivity of the end-user (the developer).
• Modern Tooling Proficiency: Fluent knowledge of industry-standard AI tooling, build tooling, containerization, and open-source development frameworks.
• Workflow Empathy: A demonstrated passion for building empathetic developer and operator workflows that prioritize human productivity.
• Cloud-Native Expertise: Professional experience managing or developing within Kubernetes clusters and a deep understanding of container orchestration.
• DevOps & Reliability Background: Proven experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Release Engineering, or a similar productivity-focused discipline.
• Testing Infrastructure Knowledge: Deep understanding of automated testing infrastructure and how to integrate it into a seamless CI/CD pipeline.
• Language & Version Control Mastery: Expertise in modern programming languages (specifically Go) and advanced proficiency in Git-based workflows (GitLab/GitHub).
• Mandatory Education: A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related analytical field (or equivalent professional experience).

Bonus Points

• Strategic Vision: Experience informing long-term company objectives through technical insight and developer-centric advocacy.
• AI Platforms: Experience building AI agent platforms for engineering teams
• Linux Internals: Hands-on experience with Linux image construction, package building.
• Community Engagement: Active involvement in the open-source community or a track record of staying current with recent industry advancements in developer productivity.
• Automation Mindset: A background in solving complex, multi-layered technical problems and then successfully automating the resulting solutions.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Restricted Stock Units
• Paid time off & paid holidays
• 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

Compensation Range

Compensation will be paid in the range of $208,725 - $253,000 + 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.