Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Compute

Posted Yesterday
2 Locations
Remote
Hybrid
183K-210K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Greentech • Other • Energy
We're on a mission to eliminate flaring and emissions in the oil field.
The Role
You'll optimize Crusoe's compute infrastructure, focusing on virtualization, performance tuning, and kernel optimizations for AI workloads.
Summary Generated by Built In

Crusoe is building the World’s Favorite AI-first Cloud infrastructure company. We’re pioneering vertically integrated,  purpose-built AI infrastructure solutions trusted by Fortune 500 companies to power their most advanced AI applications. Crusoe is redefining AI cloud infrastructure, with a mission to align the future of computing with the future of the climate. Our AI platform is recognized as the "gold standard" for reliability and performance. Our data centers are optimized for AI workloads and are powered by clean, renewable energy.

Be part of the AI revolution with sustainable technology at Crusoe. Here, you'll drive meaningful innovation, make a tangible impact, and join a team that’s setting the pace for responsible, transformative cloud infrastructure.

About This Role:

At Crusoe, we are building the most sustainable, AI-first cloud infrastructure, and our Compute-focused Site Reliability Engineers are the backbone of that mission. This role is centered on supporting virtualization, hypervisor, and kernel-level performance for Crusoe’s compute infrastructure. You’ll play a vital role in deploying and optimizing bare-metal and virtualized compute platforms, ensuring performance, security, and scale for modern AI and HPC workloads.

What You'll Be Working On:

In this role, you will develop automation and observability tools to monitor Crusoe’s compute infrastructure, spanning from the kernel to orchestration layers. You will support and scale the company’s virtualization stack, including technologies such as KVM, QEMU, and other hypervisors. Collaborating with Linux kernel and hardware teams, you’ll help identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, driver issues, and optimize hardware offloads. A key focus will be on optimizing performance for AI and HPC workloads across CPU, GPU, and DPU/NIC resources. You will participate in root cause analysis for kernel crashes, hardware-software integration problems, and performance regressions, while also integrating hypervisor-level enhancements to improve guest VM reliability and workload isolation. The role involves tuning kernel subsystems such as the process scheduler, NUMA configuration, memory management, and interrupt handling. Additionally, you will work closely with platform teams to implement and validate support for emerging compute hardware, including SmartNICs, BlueField devices, and TPUs


What You’ll Bring to the Team:

  • 5+ years of professional experience in SRE, Linux system engineering, or compute infrastructure roles.

  • Strong proficiency in Linux kernel internals, with exposure to scheduler, memory allocation, and driver subsystems.

  • Experience with virtualization architectures and technologies such as KVM, Xen, QEMU, or VMware.

  • Familiarity with SmartNICs/DPUs (e.g., NVIDIA CX6/7, BlueField-3) and kernel bypass techniques.

  • Expert-level skills in at least one programming language: C, Go, or Rust.

  • Experience with system-level debugging, including kdump, kexec, and kernel panic analysis.

  • Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tooling and CI/CD practices for bare-metal or cloud infrastructure.

  • Strong understanding of compute scheduling, resource management, and high-throughput networking.

Benefits:

  • Hybrid work schedule

  • 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; $50 per pay period

Compensation Range:

Compensation will be paid in the range of $183,000 - $210,000 per year + Bonus. 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.


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The Company
HQ: Denver, CO
667 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

Crusoe is on a mission to eliminate routine flaring of natural gas and reduce the cost of cloud computing. We are passionate about our goals to help the oil industry operate more efficiently, achieve better relationships with communities and regulators, and improve environmental performance. Crusoe repurposes otherwise wasted energy to fuel the growing demand for computational power in the expanding digital economy.

Why Work With Us

Crusoe has five core values with each value grounded in a set of actionable practices. The combination of philosophical values and actionable practices creates a decision-making framework for each employee to achieve success at Crusoe.

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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

Our hybrid policy allows employees to work from home two days a week, and to work in-person at our Denver or Arvada location three days a week.

Typical time on-site: 3 days a week
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