Engineering Manager, Cloud Storage

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 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 This Role:

Crusoe Energy is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As an Engineering Manager in the Cloud Storage team, you’ll be at the forefront of our building high performance distributed storage storage products, leading a team of talented engineers

What You’ll Be Doing:

Leading a World Class Software Engineering Team

• Manage and grow a team of ambitious engineers building core components of our foundational storage products, purpose built for high performance AI and ML workloads

• Provide coaching, mentorship, and support for development by creating tailored career growth paths

• Define clear performance expectations and career goals for your team to foster a high-performing and sustainable organization

Technical Strategy & Execution

• Define engineering goals, set technical direction, and spearhead timely delivery of complex, high-visibility and high-impact work

• Collaborate with principal engineers, engineering leadership and product to define the technical roadmap and vision for the team

• Align external partner teams with our technical roadmap and develop a joint execution model with clearly defined success criteria

Technical Oversight

• Provide thoughtful design inputs for architecting high-performance, scalable, and resilient storage systems

• Rally your team to troubleshoot and resolve unique and complex distributed systems problems only seen at the scale we operate

• Have the ability to review and understand code and provide constructive technical feedback to engineers

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Foster strong collaboration with across engineering teams (e.g., Software Infrastructure, Fleet Management and SRE) and cross-functional departments like customer success, sales and product management

• Single threaded ownership and representation of the storage team in business critical initiatives across the company

• Work with vendors to troubleshoot customer performance and reliability issues and iterate through the technical architecture of our next generation of products

You Will Thrive in this Role If:

• You bring 2+ years managing or technically leading high-performing engineering teams that have built storage systems

• You have experience leading and growing your high functioning team by setting goals, providing feedback, and managing performance.

• You possess the capability to manage a team where problems, opportunities, and strategies may not be fully defined, driving clarity and direction.

• You have a strong ability to prioritize work, communicate trade-offs, and lead cross functional teams through ambiguity

• You are a clear communicator who can articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• You have a proven track record of delivering performance-critical products in AI, ML or other high performance cloud computing environments preferably in a CSP (Cloud Service Provider), NCP (Neo-Cloud provider) or AI-infrastructure company.

• You have familiarity with storage protocols like NFS, NVMe-oF or S3

• You’re motivated to continue to be technical with background in programming in languages such as, Go, C/C++, Java, Rust and are incentivized to contribute to design, architecture and code reviews

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 Teladoc

• 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

• MetLife Legal

• Company paid commuter benefit; $50 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.