Crusoe
Senior Software Engineer, Platform Networking
$170K–$205K
San Francisco, CA - US +2 · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 19, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA - US
Sunnyvale, CA - US
Bellevue, WA - US - Experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend systems in production.
About the job
Build and own network control-plane tooling for Crusoe Cloud, enabling teams to provision, configure, monitor, and reliably operate network infrastructure at scale.
What you'll do
- Develop network state management systems, including provisioning, configuration management, topology/routing state, and control-plane APIs.
- Scale and improve reliable, fault-tolerant control-plane systems; own initiatives from design through deployment.
- Mentor engineers, uphold code quality, and partner across product, operations, and engineering on technical direction and build-versus-buy decisions.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building production backend systems.
- Proficiency in at least one of Go, Rust, C++, Java, or Python.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, including consensus, state reconciliation, fault tolerance, and high availability.
- Experience designing scalable, reliable APIs or services used by multiple teams; familiarity with CI/CD and infrastructure as code tooling.
Nice to have
- Networking software, protocols, or control-plane experience; cloud provider, hyperscaler, or large-scale data center experience.
- Familiarity with gNMI, gRPC, NETCONF, Kubernetes orchestration, custom controllers/operators, or open-source infrastructure/networking contributions.
Pay
up to $170,000 - $205,000 USD base salary + Bonus (amount not specified); Restricted Stock Units included in all offers (value not specified)
Tools
Go, Rust, C++, Java, Python, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes
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