Crusoe
Staff Software Engineer, Crusoe Container Registry
$215K–$260K
San Francisco, CA - US · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of professional software development experience, including building and operating distributed systems; the posting says what you have built matters more than the exact number.
About the job
Own and scale Crusoe Cloud’s container registry, ensuring its performance, reliability, and recovery as the platform grows.
What you'll do
- Set the registry’s technical direction, architecture, and scaling roadmap; establish engineering standards.
- Lead high-impact work from design through production and drive performance, reliability, and maintainability.
- Mentor engineers, influence adjacent teams, and lead technical responses to production incidents.
What they ask for
- Proven success designing, scaling, and hardening distributed systems for reliable, high-load production environments.
- Practical experience profiling, benchmarking, and optimizing distributed systems, including latency, throughput, caching, and resource tradeoffs.
- Strong fundamentals in microservices and cloud-native infrastructure, including Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform, and experience with Go, Rust, Java, or C++.
- Strong system ownership, customer focus, cross-functional communication, and mentorship experience.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with OCI image and distribution specs; experience building container registry products.
- Experience with storage or caching systems at scale.
Pay
up to $215,000 -$260,000 USD base salary; bonus amount not specified
Tools
Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Go, Rust, Java, C++, OCI image and distribution specs
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