Staff Network Production Engineer, Operations

The posting, as Crusoe wrote it

Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.

We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.

We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.

If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.

About This Role

Crusoe Cloud is seeking a Staff Network Production Operations Engineer to help own production reliability across our global network infrastructure, including edge, backbone, data center fabric, and GPU cluster interconnects. This is a hands-on production ownership role focused on incident response, root cause analysis, and operational excellence initiatives that keep our hyperscale AI infrastructure running at scale. Your work will directly affect the availability of AI workloads running across thousands of GPUs worldwide.

The ideal candidate is a seasoned network engineer with deep operational experience in large-scale environments who thrives in high-pressure situations and takes pride in keeping systems healthy. You'll contribute to defining SLIs and SLOs, improving observability tooling, building automation to reduce toil, and mentoring peers — all while serving as a key escalation point during high-severity network events.

What You'll Be Working On

• Production Reliability: Help own uptime across Crusoe's global edge, backbone, data center, and GPU cluster network, directly supporting AI workloads at scale.
• Operational Automation: Build and maintain Python-based tooling to reduce toil, automate common remediation workflows, and accelerate mean time to resolution across the operations org.
• Automate Incident Response: Develop scripts and tooling that speed up detection, triage, and mitigation during high-severity network events, and contribute directly to the response itself, including stakeholder communication and postmortem documentation.
• Automate Root Cause Analysis: Build tooling to surface systemic issues faster during RCAs, and drive remediation plans tracked through to closure.
• Observability Automation: Write automation on to

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luding experience as an escalation point during critical events.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Bonus Points

• Experience with NVIDIA/Mellanox networking platforms in GPU cluster environments.
• Familiarity with Kentik or Arbor for traffic analysis and DDoS visibility.
• Experience defining or contributing to SLIs and SLOs in partnership with SRE or product teams.
• Exposure to operating 10K+ device fleets across hyperscale or cloud environments.
• Background contributing to post-incident learning programs or operational excellence initiatives org-wide.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity packages
• Restricted Stock Units
• Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
• Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
• Employer contributions to HSA account
• Paid parental leave
• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
• Professional development & tuition reimbursement
• Mental health & wellness support
• Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
• Cell phone stipend
• 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
• Volunteer time off
• Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
• Daily meals allowance
• Additional perks & programs specific to location

Compensation Range

Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $215,000 - $260,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant's knowledge, education, 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.