Crusoe
Director of Engineering, Compute Cloud
$285K–$335K
San Francisco, CA - US · On-site · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of engineering management experience; 10+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Leads engineering for Crusoe Cloud’s compute offerings, setting team strategy and delivering scalable, reliable cloud compute and virtualization capabilities.
What you'll do
- Define the cloud compute team’s roadmap and strategy with leadership, and guide architecture, design, reviews, and implementation.
- Scale and develop the engineering organization through hiring, onboarding, management growth, and team processes.
- Lead complex engineering initiatives and collaborate across teams to deliver cloud compute solutions.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of engineering management experience and 10+ years working in software engineering.
- In-depth understanding of CPU, GPU, and ASIC compute products and customer use.
- Understanding of hypervisors and virtualization technologies such as KVM, VMware ESXi, and Microsoft Hyper-V.
- Experience building and maintaining scalable, highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems and application architectures.
Nice to have
- Experience operating production infrastructure to strict SLOs and SLAs, using fleet-wide observability and monitoring.
- Expertise in Linux, configuration management, deployment automation, or contributions to cloud infrastructure, containerization, or virtualization open source.
Pay
up to $285,000 - 335,000 + Bonus (currency not stated; compensation type not specified)
Tools
KVM, VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Linux, QEMU, containerd, Kubernetes
AI focus
Builds a carbon-reducing, AI-focused cloud platform and compute products for AI/ML workloads, including high-performance GPU compute.
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