Crusoe's mission is to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence by building high performance distributed storage products for AI and ML workloads.
Requirements
- You bring 2+ years managing or technically leading high-performing engineering teams that have built storage systems
- 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
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Work with vendors to troubleshoot customer performance and reliability issues and iterate through the technical architecture of our next generation of products
Other
- 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
- Align external partner teams with our technical roadmap and develop a joint execution model with clearly defined success criteria
- 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
- 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.
