Staff Storage Engineer
Compensation & Benefits
Total rewards package
Compensation
$215,000 - $255,000
Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $215,000 - $255,000 + 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.
Benefits included
Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $215,000 - $255,000 + 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.
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.
About the Role
At Crusoe, we are on a mission to align the future of computing with the future of the climate. As a Staff Storage Administrator on the Storage Team, you will be the lead architect and operator of the data layer for our vertically integrated AI cloud. This team sits at the critical intersection of massive-scale data ingress/egress and high-performance GPU workloads, ensuring that our sustainable clusters deliver world-class data throughput for the world’s most demanding AI and HPC use cases.
You will manage the end-to-end lifecycle of our world-wide storage environment from initial bring-up and configuration to high-level vendor strategy. In this role, you will have a direct hand in shaping our enterprise infrastructure, collaborating on vendor RFPs and reviewing responses while working directly to influence vendor product roadmaps. Your work ensures that Fortune 500 companies and leading AI researchers have the performant, reliable, and sustainable storage needed to power the AI revolution.
What You'll Be Working On
- Performance Analysis & Optimization Evaluate performance of block, file, and object storage systems across diverse workloads. Identify bottlenecks at the hardware, firmware, OS, and application layers. Develop and execute performance test plans, benchmarks, and stress tests. Tune storage stacks (I/O schedulers, caching layers, drivers, protocols) to achieve target KPIs.
- Validation & TestingDesign and execute Proof of Concept (PoC) exercises to take new arrays through their paces. You will validate new vendor software releases in staging environments before rolling them out to our global production footprint.
- Full-Stack AdministrationOwn the initial bring-up, configuration, and ongoing performance tuning of large enterprise arrays. You will manage the lifecycle of the storage OS, ensuring all systems are optimized for AI training and inference I/O patterns.
- Enterprise Infrastructure BuildingCollaborate with the Compute and Networking teams to build a seamless "gold standard" cloud infrastructure. You will design cloud-scale storage systems that can excel in high-concurrency, high-throughput environments.
- Storage Strategy & Selection Lead the technical evaluation of new storage technologies. You will be responsible for authoring RFPs, reviewing vendor responses, and leading "down selection" processes to ensure we invest in the best hardware for AI workloads.
- Vendor Roadmap Influence Serve as the primary technical point of contact for storage partners (such as VAST Data, Pure Storage). You will sit with their engineering teams to provide feedback on bugs, missing features, and prioritize Crusoe’s requirements on their development roadmaps.
- Cross‑Functional Collaboration Work closely with service engineering and architecture teams to influence design decisions. Provide performance guidance during feature development and release cycles. Communicate findings to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
What You'll Bring to the Team
Bonus Points
- 10+ years of experience in storage systems administration, with a heavy focus on petabyte-scale, on-premise data environments.
- Hands-on production experience administering VAST Data and/or Pure Storage (Everpure) arrays, including bring-up, configuration, upgrades, and performance tuning.
- Strong understanding of storage architectures (block, file, and object) and I/O paths.
- Hands-on experience with performance benchmarking and observability tools (FIO, ElBencho, blktrace, nvme-cli, nfs-gaze, eBPF, etc.).
- Experience with SSDs, NVMe, RAID, caching, or distributed storage systems.
- Deep familiarity with enterprise flash arrays and distributed file systems.
- Proficiency with scripting (Python, Go, or Bash) to automate array management and monitoring.
- Ability to analyze complex performance data and present clear conclusions.
- Proven ability to lead the authoring of technical requirements, evaluate RFP responses, and manage complex vendor relationships.
- Experience with system design for specific I/O use cases (AI training and inference), and a disciplined approach to testing and validating new vendor releases.
- A genuine interest in Crusoe’s mission to reduce the environmental impact of the AI revolution through sustainable infrastructure.
- Experience with RDMA, iSCSI, NVME-oF, RoCEv2 or InfiniBand networking as it relates to high-performance storage.
- Previous experience at a major Cloud Service Provider (CSP) or a high-scale AI infrastructure company.
- Familiarity with distributed storage systems (Ceph, Lustre, Gluster, etc.).
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About Crusoe
Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that owns and operates the complete technology stack from energy to computing to power AI workloads.
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