Crusoe is seeking a Senior Streaming Software Engineer for the Observability team within our Cloud Infrastructure organization. You will design, build, and operate high-throughput streaming systems that process massive volumes of telemetry data for Crusoe's AI cloud, focusing on large-scale data pipelines and distributed systems that power observability across a rapidly scaling environment.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and maintain streaming services and pipelines that ingest and process observability data including logs, metrics, traces, and operational events
- Implement real-time data processing systems using technologies such as Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub, Flink, or similar streaming platforms
- Scale streaming infrastructure to support high-throughput telemetry ingestion, high-cardinality workloads, and bursty infrastructure traffic patterns
- Ensure streaming systems are reliable and observable, with strong instrumentation, dashboards, and alerting
- Collaborate with SREs and platform teams to integrate streaming data into internal observability tools and operational workflows
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and post-incident reviews
- Improve system reliability and developer experience through automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code practices
- Contribute to technical design discussions and reviews for new streaming capabilities
What We're Looking For
- Strong experience building and operating distributed systems, especially streaming or real-time data platforms
- Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar distributed streaming technologies
- Proficiency in backend languages such as Java, Scala, Go, or Python
- Experience operating services in cloud or large-scale infrastructure environments
- Solid understanding of observability fundamentals including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
- Comfort debugging production issues across distributed systems
- Ability to own features end-to-end, from design through production operations
- Strong collaboration skills and a pragmatic engineering mindset
Nice to Have
- Experience building observability platforms at cloud or data center scale
- Familiarity with stream processing frameworks and delivery semantics
- Experience with Kubernetes and containerized infrastructure
- Exposure to schema management, data contracts, or serialization formats
- Experience working with bare-metal infrastructure or large-scale data center environments
- Interest in mentoring junior engineers
Technical Stack
- Kafka
- Kinesis
- Pub/Sub
- Flink
- Java
- Scala
- Go
- Python
- Kubernetes
Team & Environment
You will join the Observability team within the Cloud Infrastructure organization.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation range: $172,000 - $209,000 + Bonus + equity
- Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers
- Industry competitive pay
- 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; $300 per month
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.




