Staff Network Operations Engineer

Location

Sunnyvale, CA - US, San Francisco, CA - US

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

On-site

Department

Cloud Engineering

Crusoe's mission is to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. We’re crafting the engine that powers a world where people can create ambitiously with AI — without sacrificing scale, speed, or sustainability.

Be a part of the AI revolution with sustainable technology at Crusoe. Here, you'll drive meaningful innovation, make a tangible impact, and join a team that’s setting the pace for responsible, transformative cloud infrastructure.

About the Role

Crusoe Cloud Network Engineering team is looking for an ambitious, experienced team player to join our Network Operations team. Crusoe Cloud Network Engineering Team is responsible for designing, building, and operating the global edge, backbone, and data center network for High-Performance Compute (HPC) Clusters with GPUs. The ideal individual will be highly motivated, self-directed, and have a desire to work on cutting-edge technologies related to the environment. You must possess excellent analytical and communication skills and be a great team player.

As a Staff Network Operations Engineer, you will be part of the Network Engineering team. You will be responsible for the operations for Global Crusoe Cloud Network. You will be responsible for ensuring that the network is up through monitoring, applying various break fixes for outages and will be part of the 24 / 7 oncall. By joining this team, you will gain marketable network operational experiences in edge, backbone, and HPC-based data center networking at a massive scale.

A Day in the Life :

Manage, and optimize Crusoe Energy Cloud's global network, including edge, backbone, data center, and public cloud connectivity.

Collaborate with Network Engineering and cross-functional teams including but not limited to Software Infrastructure, and Product, to drive the innovation and evolution of the Crusoe Energy Cloud network.

Lead operational excellence initiatives—developing monitoring, alerting, and self-healing systems to ensure high network availability.

Perform advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis for incidents, guiding post-mortem reviews and improvements.

Mentor network engineers and establish best practices for incident response, documentation, and operational readiness.

Will be part of a 24 / 7 Oncall Support for the Crusoe Network.

You Will Thrive In This Role If :

10+ years of related experience building and operating at scale in a production environment.

In-depth knowledge of network protocols including TCP / IP, QoS, BGP, OSPF / IS-IS, EVPN, VXLAN, QoSand MPLS-related technologies like RSVP-TE, LDP, etc.

Good understanding of network monitoring protocols and tools, such as SNMP, IPFIX, Sflow / netflow, and Telemetry.

Experience with tools like Kentik, Arbor, Thousand eyes, Catch point, packet design etc

Familiar with data center network architecture, such as Fat Tree architecture, CLOS, BGP-TE, and peering for edge.

Hands-on experience with major network devices like Mellanox, Cisco, Arista, Juniper, and other mainstream vendors.

Familiar with mainstream commercial switch / router chipsets, such as Broadcom, Barefoot, etc.

Familiarity with technologies like RDMA, Infiniband, and RoCE will be a plus.

In-depth knowledge of public cloud architecture connectivity options to AWS, GCP, Azure, Ali Cloud, OCI, etc.

Good understanding of IPv6 and IPv4-IPv6 coexistence technologies.

Programming / scripting in Python, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or other languages will be a plus.

Self-motivated, with good communication and writing skills.

Team player and participate in Crusoe Energy Cloud network global on-call rotation.

Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or experience equivalent to a Bachelor's degree based on three or more years of work experience

Benefits :

Industry competitive pay

Restricted Stock Units in a fast-growing, well-funded technology company

Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents

Employer contributions to HSA accounts

Paid Parental Leave

Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability

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Pet-friendly offices

401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary

Generous paid time off and holiday schedule

Cell phone reimbursement

Tuition reimbursement

Subscription to the Calm app

Company paid commuter benefit; $200 per pay period

Compensation Range :

Compensation will be paid in the range of $204,000 - $247,000. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, 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.

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