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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Software Engineer, Crusoe Container Registry - **Company:** Crusoe's Inc - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States - **Salary:** $215,000.0 - $260,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Profiling, Code Review, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Cloud Platform System, Caching, Kubernetes, Low Latency, Codebase, Terraform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Docker, Microservices - **Published:** August 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/0a4aa0dc-c856-40f1-9972-3c239d564500 ## About the Role * Distributed systems at scale: You have proven success designing, scaling, and hardening distributed systems, all while keeping them reliable under high-load production environments. * A performance-driven mindset: You set performance strategy and have deep, practical experience profiling, benchmarking, and optimizing distributed systems, with sound judgment about latency, throughput, caching, and resource tradeoffs at scale. * Thrive in ambiguity: You thrive on transforming ambiguous performance problems into measured action and durable fixes. You work ahead of demand, identifying constraints before they reach customers. * A track record of system level ownership: You've owned critical systems from design through production and carried them through operational pressure. You've made difficult calls under conflicting requirements and visible risk, and stood behind them. * A customer-centric mindset: You keep the customers top of mind, and you can translate their needs into actionable changes in the codebase. * Technical & infrastructure proficiency: You havestrong fundamentals in microservices and cloud-native infrastructure technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) alongside languages like Go, Rust, Java, or C++. * Collaboration and communication: You are comfortable working across functions to align on priorities and to explain technical tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical partners alike. * Mentorship and force multiplication: You've grown other engineers. You've mentored teammates on the team's systems, helped newer engineers find their footing, raised the team's technical bar, and contributed to hiring. * Experience: You have8+ years of professional software development experience, including time spent building and operating distributed systems but we care more about what you've built than the exact number., * Familiarity with the OCI image and distribution specs * Experience building container registry products * Experience with storage or caching systems at scale ## Description We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help make Crusoe Cloud's container registry fast and reliable as the platform grows. The registry sits on the critical path of every deployment and job launch on our platform, and its performance directly affects how quickly customer workloads come online. You'll own the evolution of the registry, drive its scaling roadmap, and be accountable for how it performs, degrades, and recovers in production. This is a full-time position. What You'll Be Working On: * Own the technical direction: Set the architecture and scaling roadmap for Crusoe Cloud's container registry. Establish the patterns and standards the team builds against, and stay accountable for scalability, reliability, and maintainability over the long haul. * Ship end-to-end: Drive high impact changes from design through production, and stay accountable for their scalability, reliability and maintainability. * Push performance limits: Drive performance strategy across the system and get ahead of demand curves before they reach customers. Make the architecture tradeoffs that keep the registry dependable as it grows. * Multiply the team: Raise the team's technical bar through architecture, design, and code review, and through mentorship, while staying hands-on on complex challenges. 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