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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** Crusoe Cloud
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $170,000.0 - $205,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Profiling, Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Cloud Platform System, Caching, Kubernetes, Low Latency, Codebase, Terraform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-software-engineer-crusoe-container-registry-crusoe-8743570

## 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 have practical experience profiling, benchmarking, and optimizing distributed systems, with sound judgment about latency, throughput, caching, and resource tradeoffs.
 * 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 ownership: You've led complex projects from design through deployment, carried them in production, and made difficult calls under visible risk and conflicting requirements.
 * 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 have strong 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: You have an interest in growing other engineers, such as mentoring teammates on the team's systems, helping newer engineers find their footing, or contributing to how we hire.
 * Experience: You have 5 - 8 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



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