Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Managed AI

Crusoe's mission is to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. We’re crafting the engine that powers a world where people can create ambitiously with AI — without sacrificing scale, speed, or sustainability.

Be a 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 the Role :

At Crusoe, our Site Reliability Engineering team ensures the reliability and scalability of Crusoe’s AI-optimized cloud platform. We’re looking for an SRE with a strong background in distributed systems and hands-on experience with large language models to help us build and operate managed AI services at scale. This role is central to delivering highly available, performant, and cost-efficient AI infrastructure that powers compute-intensive, latency-sensitive workloads for our customers.

What You’ll Work On :

Design and operate reliable managed AI services with a focus on serving and scaling LLM workloads

Build automation and reliability tooling to support distributed AI pipelines and inference services

Define, measure, and improve SLIs / SLOs across AI workloads to ensure performance and reliability targets are met

Collaborate with AI, platform, and infrastructure teams to optimize large-scale training and inference clusters

Automate observability by building telemetry and performance tuning strategies for latency-sensitive AI services

Investigate and resolve reliability issues in distributed AI systems using telemetry, logs, and profiling

Contribute to the architecture of next-generation distributed systems purpose-built for AI-first environments

What You’ll Bring :

Strong software engineering background — experience building production-grade systems beyond scripting or Bash

Demonstrated experience in distributed systems design and implementation

Hands-on work with large language models (LLMs) or AI / ML infrastructure

SRE mindset and experience (whether or not under the SRE title) including :

Defining and measuring SLIs / SLOs

Building monitoring and observability systems

Driving performance and reliability improvements

Designing fault-tolerant systems and automated testing strategies

Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Python, Go, Java, C++)

Familiarity with Kubernetes or container orchestration platforms

Strong collaboration and communication skills

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment

Bonus Points :

Experience scaling inference or training workloads for LLMs

Benefits :

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

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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

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Company paid commuter benefit; $300 per month

Compensation :

Compensation will be paid in the range of $204,000 - $247,000 + 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.

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