Director of Engineering, Compute Cloud

As the Director of Engineering - Cloud Compute, you will play a pivotal role in building our foundational IaaS offerings and accelerate the development of our carbon-reducing, AI focused cloud platform. Leveraging your extensive experience in cloud computing, you will lead complex engineering initiatives, mentor engineers, and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable and reliable cloud compute solutions. Our customers include rapidly growing AI companies and enterprise AI teams who use our high performance GPU compute products with VPC and cluster networking technology. We’re now adding broad new compute and virtualization capabilities to meet the needs of our growing customer base.

What You'll Be Working On:

Serve as a team lead for cloud compute engineering at Crusoe Cloud, collaborating with leadership to define and implement the long-term road map and strategy for the team

Guide the engineering team through architecture decisions, design processes, design reviews, code reviews, and implementation tasks

Scale the team, including managing engineer onboarding, growing or hiring managers, and implementing team and org processes.

Stay aware of the latest trends and techniques in cloud software, incorporating these insights to maintain Crusoe’s market-leading offerings

Drive the hiring process to attract top talent, and implement strategies to retain and develop these professionals

What You'll Bring to the Team:

7+ years of engineering management experience, 10+ years of experience working in software engineering

In-depth understanding of Compute products (CPU, GPU, ASIC accelerators) and how customers consume them

Understanding of key hypervisors and virtualization technologies (eg KVM, VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V) and how they enable cloud computing.

Familiarity with AI/ML workloads and how they drive compute requirements for the cloud data center.

Proven experience in building and maintaining scalable and highly available fault-tolerant distributed systems and application architectures

Knowledge of professional software engineering practices and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Bonus Points

Proven track record of operating production infrastructure to strict SLOs and SLAs, leveraging fleet-wide observability and monitoring to drive reliability, optimization, and capacity planning

Deep expertise in Linux environments, configuration management, and modern deployment automation to ensure safe, scalable rollouts across large-scale compute fleets

Demonstrated leadership in ambiguous, fast-moving environments,bringing structure, clarity, and cross-functional alignment during periods of rapid organizational growth

Active open-source or upstream contributions to cloud infrastructure, containerization, or virtualization technologies (e.g., KVM, QEMU, containerd, Kubernetes)