Senior Engineering Manager, Compute

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a team of software and systems engineers building compute data plane infrastructure
• Own the reliability, performance, and scalability of VM and bare-metal host lifecycle systems
• Drive technical strategy for hypervisor management, host provisioning pipelines, and compute control plane integration
• Define and execute the roadmap for the compute data plane in alignment with fleet growth and product goals
• Partner with cross-functional teams including networking, storage, GPU platform, and infra reliability
• Establish engineering best practices, on-call culture, and operational rigor
• Hire, develop, and retain strong engineers to build a high-performing team culture

Requirements

• 8+ years of software or systems engineering experience
• 3+ years in engineering management
• Deep technical background in hypervisor internals (KVM/QEMU, Xen), Linux systems, bare-metal provisioning, or distributed systems
• Experience building or operating large-scale compute infrastructure (cloud provider, HPC, or hyperscaler background preferred)
• Track record of delivering reliable, high-availability infrastructure systems at scale
• Strong systems thinking across the full stack from hardware to control plane
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience managing senior engineers and setting technical direction

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with GPU infrastructure or accelerated compute workloads
• Familiarity with OpenStack, cloud-init, iPXE, or similar provisioning tooling
• Background in infrastructure at an IaaS cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, CoreWeave, or similar)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation-first operational models

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and Restricted Stock Units
• Paid time off & paid holidays
• 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%
• Volunteer time off

About the Company

Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that owns and operates each layer of the stack to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads using an energy-first approach.