Senior Staff Software Engineer

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Senior Staff Software Engineer in USA

Crusoe
Full time
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USA
10/07/2026
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San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

Design and implement storage-protocol hardware offload for NVMe-oF, encryption, compression, checksums, and erasure coding on DPUs and SmartNICs.
Build and maintain control-plane integrations for provisioning, health, telemetry, and failover of DPU-resident offload services.
Partner with Storage Networking and Compute/Hypervisor teams on RDMA/RoCE, NVMe-oF, SR-IOV, and vDPA-based DPU virtualization.
Evaluate and integrate vendor DPU SDKs and frameworks such as NVIDIA DOCA and BlueField SNAP.
Build observability and testing infrastructure for DPU-offloaded paths.
Drive IOPS, throughput, latency, and host-CPU-cycle-saved benchmarking.
Serve as the storage team’s technical lead for DPU architecture decisions and hardware-vendor collaboration.

Requirements

10+ years of professional software engineering experience with hands-on systems programming in C, C++, or Rust and production control-plane or orchestration experience in Go, Java, or similar.
Direct production experience with SmartNICs or DPUs, including NVIDIA BlueField, Intel IPU, ConnectX 6/7, or comparable hardware-offload platforms.
Working knowledge of NVMe-oF, RDMA, RoCE, InfiniBand, and storage protocols commonly accelerated by DPUs.
Experience with SR-IOV, vDPA, virtio-blk, virtio-fs, XDP/eBPF, DPDK, or SPDK.
Strong Linux systems experience spanning kernel internals, device drivers, and I/O subsystems.
Experience contributing to a file, block, or object storage system.
Experience with NVIDIA DOCA, BlueField SNAP, or other DPU-native storage-virtualization frameworks is preferred.
Experience operating NVMe-oF target or initiator offload, multi-tenant hardware isolation, GPUDirect Storage, or GPU-to-storage optimizations is preferred.
Open-source contributions to DPDK, SPDK, Open vSwitch, or similar projects are preferred.
Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Benefits

Competitive compensation and equity packages, including Restricted Stock Units.
Paid time off, paid holidays, leave programs, and paid parental leave.
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions.
Paid life insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, and mental health and wellness support.
Professional development and tuition reimbursement.
Commuter benefits, cell phone stipend, 401(k) plan with company match up to 4% of salary, and volunteer time off.
Global travel insurance, emergency assistance, daily meals allowance, and location-specific perks.

Salary: $245k - $290k/yr

Crusoe

As the AI factory company, Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. The company provides a reliable, scalable, cost-effective, and energy-first solution for AI infrastructure. By harnessing large-scale energy resources, building AI-optimized data centers, and...

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