Staff Software Engineer, Network Automation

About the role

Crusoe is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and deliver the automation frameworks, observability platforms, and self-healing workflows that keep our global network fleet running at scale. This role sits at the intersection of Network Engineering, Software Engineering, and Infrastructure Reliability — and is central to Crusoe's mission of building AI infrastructure that scales intelligently, not just bigger.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the technical roadmap for Crusoe's automation stack, from source of truth and config generation through day-2 operations and closed-loop remediation across our global fleet.
• Help design and maintain the authoritative data model (NetBox, Nautobot, or equivalent) that drives network configuration, validation, and operational state across teams.
• Build and maintain declarative, model-driven configuration systems using Python, Nornir, Ansible, and Jinja2, treating the network as code and eliminating configuration drift.
• Contribute to Crusoe's gNMI, OpenConfig, and NETCONF/YANG strategy for telemetry collection, configuration management, and state validation across multi-vendor fabrics.
• Build and maintain event-driven auto-remediation systems that detect faults, correlate telemetry, and resolve known failure modes without human escalation.
• Help build and improve Crusoe's telemetry, metrics, alerting, and dashboarding stack including Prometheus, Grafana, and streaming gNMI collectors.
• Work closely with Network Architecture to ensure designs are automation-first — deployable, validatable, and operable programmatically at scale.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with a demonstrated focus on production network automation and infrastructure as code.
• Production-quality software engineering skills in Python or Go, with CI/CD integration and platform-level thinking.
• Hands-on experience with model-driven automation including gNMI, OpenConfig, NETCONF, and YANG.
• Strong knowledge of Arista (EOS) and/or Juniper (Junos) in leaf-spine DC fabric environments.
• Solid understanding of BGP, EVPN-VXLAN, and LLDP at data center scale.
• Experience building or contributing to observability platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, and streaming telemetry tooling.

Bonus points

• Experience with NVIDIA/Mellanox platforms in production environments.
• Familiarity operating at fleet scale across thousands of network devices in multi-region environments.
• Experience in closed-loop, event-driven automation and auto-remediation systems.
• Experience in hyperscale or internet-scale infrastructure (cloud providers, large CDNs, or AI/ML infrastructure companies).

Qualifications

• Experience contributing to or owning a network source of truth platform such as NetBox or Nautobot.
• Strong knowledge of BGP, EVPN-VXLAN, and LLDP at data center scale.
• Experience building or contributing to observability platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, and streaming telemetry tooling.

Skills

• Model-driven automation including gNMI, OpenConfig, NETCONF, and YANG.
• Event-driven auto-remediation systems.
• Telemetry, metrics, alerting, and dashboarding stack including Prometheus, Grafana, and streaming gNMI collectors.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity packages
• 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
• 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 up to $215,000 - $260,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicants knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Schedule

This is a full-time role for someone who wants to work on hard problems at hyperscale.