Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud Storage

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 RoleCrusoe is building a vertically integrated, climate aligned, high performance AI cloud. We are rapidly scaling our infrastructure to meet the industry's most high value workloads. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead the team responsible for the architecture, delivery, and operations of our high performance environments. You will manage a team with the dual mandate of operating our current petabyte scale infrastructure and building the next generation, bespoke cloud storage platform optimized for AI and HPC workloads. This is a high impact role where your leadership, strategy, and decisions directly impact revenue and the success of our customers’ most critical pipelines. You will partner cross functionally across key engineering teams and operate with direct visibility at the VP and SVP level.What You’ll Be Working On:Team Leadership & People DevelopmentLead and grow a team of software engineers spanning all levels with a focus on career development, performance management, and building a high-performing engineering cultureSet clear team goals, run structured performance reviews, and create individualized growth paths that help engineers advance their careersFoster a team environment where ownership is distributed, calculated risk-taking is encouraged, and engineers are empowered to solve hard problemsDrive recruiting and hiring to grow the team; eventually owning the full hiring processProject Management & ExecutionClearly translate product requirements into actionable engineering plans, from architecture and design through task breakdown, estimation, and deliveryMaintain a clear view of dependencies, resourcing, and sequencing across parallel workstreams to keep projects on trackCoordinate across partner teams and external vendors to ensure storage integrates cleanly into the broader Crusoe Cloud platformTechnical OversightLead architecture and design reviews, providing substantive technical input and holding the bar for quality across your team's workMaintain enough technical depth to conduct meaningful code reviews and engage credibly with your most senior engineers on complex design decisionsDrive incident response for storage-related issues, ensuring fast resolution and durable fixes for business-critical systemsDevelop a strong understanding of the full storage stack from NAND to GPU, focusing on performance characteristics and submillisecond latency required by our AI/ML customer access patterns.Cross-Functional & Organizational ImpactServe as the primary technical representative for Storage in cross-functional initiatives, ensuring your team's needs and constraints are well-understood by partner teams and leadershipBuild strong working relationships with Compute, SDN, SRE, and CCX teams to ensure storage is a reliable, well-integrated part of the overall platformEngage directly with hardware vendors and enterprise customers to address performance issues and inform next-generation hardware-software designWhat You’ll Bring to the Team:Management Experience4+ years of engineering management experience, with a demonstrated track record of growing teams and developing engineers, managing performance, and delivering cross-functional projectsExperience leading teams of 6+ engineers at multiple levelsA background as a strong individual contributor — software engineer, tech lead, or architect who moved into management and still engages deeply with technical workStorage & Infrastructure Depth4+ years of hands-on experience with distributed storage systems such as Ceph, GlusterFS, or MinIOHands on experience with production block, file, and object storage systemsExperience with performance optimization and capacity planning for large-scale storage systemsDeep working knowledge of high performance storage protocols including NFS over RDMA, NVMe-oF, S3, and RoCE/InfiniBand fabrics.Familiarity with modern storage technologies (NVMe, RDMA, DPUs) and their impact on system performance, including kernel level concepts around I/O subsystems and volumes.Strong programming methodologies and background in C/C++, Go, Java, or Rust, sufficient to conduct substantive code reviews and contribute to architecture discussions, particularly in developing cloud native storage solutions.Leadership ApproachMotivated by developing people and scaling impact through your teamAble to manage performance clearly and constructively, including navigating difficult people situations with sound judgment and good processComfortable making decisions with incomplete information, and skilled at balancing near-term execution with longer-term technical qualityAdaptable in your technical approach, evaluating tools and architectures on their merits rather than defaulting to what's familiarCollaborative across team boundaries, with a track record of influencing outcomes without direct authorityNice to HavePrior IC experience designing, deploying, and operating distributed storage systems at a Cloud Service Provider (CSP), neo-cloud, HPC integrator, or AI infrastructure companyExperience with containerized workloads and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Docker)Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or AnsibleLinux internals knowledge, particularly around I/O subsystems, devices, and volumesWhy CrusoeCrusoe sits at an unusual moment: we have production AI workloads from some of the most demanding customers in the industry running on infrastructure that we're still actively building out. That means the work is urgent, the stakes are real, and the opportunity to shape how a next-generation AI cloud is architected is genuinely open. There aren't many places where you can do that — and even fewer where the storage layer is this consequential.Benefits:Industry competitive payRestricted Stock Units in a fast growing, well-funded technology companyHealth insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependentsEmployer contributions to HSA accountsPaid Parental LeavePaid life insurance, short-term and long-term disabilityTeladoc401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salaryGenerous paid time off and holiday scheduleCell phone reimbursementTuition reimbursementSubscription to the Calm appMetLife LegalCompany paid Commuter FSA benefit of $300 per monthCompensation RangeCompensation will be paid in the range of $237,600-$285,000. 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.LocationSan Francisco, CA - USEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeOn-siteDepartmentCloud Engineering