Senior Director, Cloud Engineering

About the role

As Senior Director, Engineering, you'll run the team behind Crusoe's customer-facing cloud platform. This is the software layer customers depend on every day—from developer portal and identity to billing, registries, metrics, and managed logging. You'll lead a 60+ person Product Engineering org through senior managers and engineering leads. You'll set technical direction, drive the roadmap, and keep the bar high on reliability, security, and on-call execution. The role sits close to customers and close to the technical core. When a platform bet matters or a customer issue turns critical, you'll help lead the response. You'll report to the Vice President of Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Lead a 60+ person Product Engineering org through senior managers and engineering leads.
• Drive the roadmap for Crusoe's customer-facing cloud platform and managed services.
• Set direction for developer portal, identity, billing, interfaces, registries, metrics, and managed logging.
• Ship the roadmap with Product and Infrastructure while raising quality, reliability, security, and on-call rigor.
• Step into major customer escalations and key product decisions when stakes are high.
• Turn customer needs into platform capabilities with Sales and Solutions Engineering.
• Build shared technical foundations with Crusoe's broader infrastructure and AI platform teams.

Requirements

• 12+ years in software engineering and 5+ years leading 40-100+ engineer orgs means real scale won't be new to you.
• Leading Directors and senior Engineering Managers is familiar ground. You know how to scale through leaders, not just direct reports.
• You've owned a cloud platform customers pay for—IaaS, PaaS, or managed services—and know what reliability feels like in production.
• You’re AI tooling fluent and are passionate about the ecosystem, the user experience, and have an interest in pushing the envelope.
• Distributed systems and cloud infrastructure are home turf. You can go deep with engineers and make sound calls at platform scale.
• In growth-stage settings, you've kept teams moving through ambiguity without letting quality or on-call discipline slip.
• You're a builder. When the playbook is thin, you create the structure the team needs.
• Direct, low-ego leadership matters here. People trust you, and you raise standards without adding noise.

Bonus Points

• Time inside AWS, GCP, Azure, CoreWeave, Lambda Labs, or a similar cloud provider will help you ramp faster.
• AI/ML platform work at scale is a useful context for the managed services we build.
• Past experience scaling an engineering org through rapid growth will translate well here.
• You've built products for both developers and enterprises, with a clear eye for user experience.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity packages
• Restricted Stock Units
• Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs
• Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
• Employer contributions to HSA account
• Paid parental leave
• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
• Professional development & tuition reimbursement
• Mental health & wellness support
• Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
• Cell phone stipend
• 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
• Volunteer time off
• Global travel insurance & emergency assistance
• Daily meals allowance
• Additional perks & programs specific to location

Pay

Compensation will be paid in the range of $325,000 - $370,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant's knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.