Staff Software Engineer, Network Automation

About the Company

Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the technical roadmap for the automation stack, including source of truth and config generation
• Design and maintain authoritative data models using NetBox, Nautobot, or equivalent
• Build and maintain declarative, model-driven configuration systems using Python, Nornir, Ansible, and Jinja2
• Contribute to gNMI, OpenConfig, and NETCONF/YANG strategy for telemetry and configuration management
• Build event-driven auto-remediation systems to detect and resolve faults
• Improve the telemetry, metrics, alerting, and dashboarding stack using Prometheus and Grafana
• Partner with Network Architecture to ensure designs are automation-first

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience focused on production network automation and infrastructure as code
• Production-quality software engineering skills in Python or Go
• Hands-on experience with model-driven automation (gNMI, OpenConfig, NETCONF, YANG)
• Experience with network source of truth platforms like NetBox or Nautobot
• 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 observability platforms using Prometheus, Grafana, and streaming telemetry

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with NVIDIA/Mellanox platforms in production
• Familiarity operating at fleet scale across thousands of network devices
• Exposure to closed-loop, event-driven automation and auto-remediation systems
• Experience in hyperscale or internet-scale infrastructure