Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

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.

Experience: Previous experience building 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).

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, and kernel-level optimizations.

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.