Crusoe
Senior Backend Software Engineer - Core Backend, Cloud Customer Experience
$170K–$205K
San Francisco, CA - US +1 · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA - US
Sunnyvale, CA - US - Experience
- 3+ years of software development experience.
About the job
Build and operate Crusoe Cloud’s core backend services, including APIs, resource management, quotas, notifications, and customer onboarding.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain scalable, reliable cloud services, including the API gateway and resource management layer.
- Build notification, eventing, quota, and entitlement systems, and improve onboarding and provisioning workflows.
- Contribute to architecture, collaborate across teams, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of software development experience, including a modern compiled language such as Go, Rust, Java, or C++.
- Experience designing versioned public APIs and related SDK, CLI, or Terraform provider surfaces, with backward compatibility.
- Ability to design and scale fault-tolerant distributed systems and managed cloud services.
- Strong PostgreSQL skills and practical experience with message queues or streaming systems.
Nice to have
- Experience building or scaling a public cloud console or developer platform.
- Familiarity with AI/ML workload requirements or financial and billing systems at scale.
Pay
$170,000 - 205,000 USD base salary
Tools
Go, Rust, Java, C++, gRPC/protobuf, REST, PostgreSQL, Kafka
AI focus
Build backend services for Crusoe’s AI-focused cloud platform and support management of AI/ML infrastructure workloads.
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