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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer - **Company:** Crusoe's Inc - **Location:** United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $166,000.0 - $201,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Storage, Software Debugging, Linux, Distributed File Systems, File Systems, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, Monitoring of Systems, InfiniBand, Internet Small Computer System Interface (ISCSI), Log Analysis, Meta-Data Management, Performance Tuning, Remote Direct Memory Access, Prometheus, Software Systems, Storage Virtualization, Subsystems, High Performance Computing, Computer Network Technologies, Grafana, Storage Technologies, ZFS File System, Block Storage, Dynatrace, Nvme, Golang - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-software-engineer-storage-crusoe-7919458 ## About the Role * Hands-on proficiency in modern software development best practices, and practical experience in languages like Go, Java, C/C++, or Rust * Extensive experience developing multi-tenant, cloud scale distributed storage infrastructure software and systems * Experience contributing to at least one or more of the following storage products: File (e.g., NFS, SMB, Lustre), Object, or Block Storage (e.g., NVMe, iSCSI) * A strong background in high performance filesystem based products, VFS and linux filesystems (e.g., ext4, XFS, ZFS) * Proficiency working with Linux and its storage subsystems. * Knowledge of monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana), log analysis, distributed tracing and debugging Bonus Points: * Experience with AI/HPC storage solutions, such as Parallel Filesystems or petabyte+ scale Object Storage. * Familiarity with networking technologies like RDMA and Infiniband. * Familiarity with modern storage technologies (e.g GPU Direct Storage, F2FS, SPDK etc) * Prior experience with Nvidia SuperNIC DPUs for storage optimization * Prior experience in Storage Virtualization & Orchestration, volume placement strategies and distributed metadata management * Research publications or open-source contributions to storage-related projects. ## Description As a Senior Software Engineer on our storage team, you'll be joining our core engineering team to design, build, and optimize our next-generation cloud storage products. We're looking for a hands-on engineer with deep expertise in building storage systems. You will be responsible for building highly performant, reliable, and scalable distributed storage systems that are critical to our infrastructure and our customers' AI/HPC workloads. What You'll Be Working On: * Building Our Multi-Petabyte Cloud Storage Platform + Building core components of our foundational storage products, purpose built for high performance AI and ML workloads + Contributing to distributed file, block and object storage products, with a focus on filesystem based solutions * System Design & Architecture + Design and implement high-performance, scalable, and resilient storage architectures that are highly extensible + Proposing and prototyping novel strategies to scale performance and system throughput for our most demanding customer workloads + Building observability, metrics and tooling for our services and fleet * High Velocity Problem Solving + Troubleshooting and resolving unique and complex distributed systems problems only seen at the scale we operate at + Provide ongoing support for production systems, and customer workloads including troubleshooting, performance tuning, and incident response * Cross-functional Collaboration + Foster strong collaboration with other engineering teams (e.g., Software Infrastructure, Product) and cross-functional departments + Single threaded ownership and representation of the storage team in business critical initiatives across the company ## Related Videos - [Docker network without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1418-docker-network-without-docker) - [Go with the Flow: Stop the Leaks Before Your Memory's a Waterfall!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100073-go-with-the-flow-stop-the-leaks-before-your-memory-s-a-waterfall) - [How building an industry DBMS differs from building a research one](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/768-how-building-an-industry-dbms-differs-from-building-a-research-one) - [Scoring 2000 Products per Request: Performance Pitfalls in Golang](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2073-scoring-2000-products-per-request-performance-pitfalls-in-golang) - [Docker exec without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1094-docker-exec-without-docker) - [How I saved 200K/yr in direct costs writing 0 code lines in K8s](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1055-how-i-saved-200k-yr-in-direct-costs-writing-0-code-lines-in-k8s) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Data Science & more: The Lopez dilemma](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/10-data-science-more-the-lopez-dilemma) - [Résumé-Driven Development: How IT trends affect the job market for software developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/59-resume-driven-development-how-it-trends-affect-the-job-market-for-software-developers) - [7 Cloud Computing Trends Coming in 2025 for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/412-7-cloud-computing-trends-coming-in-2025-for-developers)