Senior Production Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster. We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI. We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services. If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe. About This Role: We’re looking for an experienced Production Engineer to design, build, and operate the cloud infrastructure that powers our AI-first compute environment. In this role, you will be responsible for the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our production systems. You’ll build automation, guardrails, and resilient platforms that enable engineering teams to move quickly while maintaining strong security, performance, and uptime standards. What You’ll Be Working On: Design, build, and manage core cloud infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and IAM Architect, operate and scale Kubernetes-based platforms Deploy and manage Kubernetes workloads using Helm charts and continuous deployment systems Help operate the observability platforms for cloud and Kubernetes workloads using tools such as VictoriaMetrics and Grafana Develop and maintain Terraform modules to define automated, auditable, and secure cloud environments Own VPC design, routing, load balancers, interconnects, peering, and network security boundaries Implement policies and guardrails across IAM, resource hierarchy, service accounts, and VPC-SC Build automation for provisioning, lifecycle management, and blue/green or canary deploy patterns Partner closely with security and platform teams on monitoring, logging, compliance, and operational readiness Optimize cloud costs, quotas, and capacity planning across multiple projects and regions Troubleshoot complex production issues across compute, storage, and networking layers What You’ll Bring to the Team: 5–8+ years operating large-scale production workloads on major cloud providers such as GCP or AWS Deep knowledge of GCE, Kubernetes in general and GKE in particular, VPC networking, load balancers, firewall rules, interconnect, and GCS Strong experience managing Kubernetes workloads and authoring Helm Charts Strong Terraform experience and a track record of building automated multi-environment infrastructure Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes internals, workload orchestration, scaling, and observability Ability to debug complex distributed systems across compute, storage, and network boundaries Strong cloud security fundamentals, including least privilege, secrets management, and policy enforcement Proficiency with Python, Go, or Shell for automation and tooling Experience influencing design decisions and partnering with cross-functional teams Bonus Points: Experience supporting high-performance or AI/ML workloads in GCP Familiarity with service mesh, or multi-cluster Kubernetes operations Background in hybrid or multi-cloud infrastructure Strong SRE fundamentals including SLOs, incident response, and postmortems Experience with Spanner, BigQuery, Bigtable, or large-scale data platforms 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: Compensation will be paid in the range of $172,000 - $209,000 + 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr Crusoe Energy Systems