Hiring: Principal Engineer, Conductor Platform (CAPE) Company: Crusoe Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 14:51:00 Target Skills & Keywords : API Gateway, C++, Event Sourcing, Event-Driven, Firmware, GitOps, Rust, SBOM, Slack, Systems Design About the job Experience: •10+ years building infrastructure-layer systems at scale — fleet management, distributed control planes, provisioning and imaging systems, CMDB/inventory platforms, or hardware lifecycle automation. This is a systems-builder role, not a consumer of managed cloud services. Required Skills: •Set the architecture, define the standards, and drive execution across the teams building the platform. Qualifications: •Deep experience with distributed systems design: state reconciliation, event-driven orchestration, workflow engines, policy enforcement, and systems that act autonomously against live production infrastructure. •Track record of architecting platforms composed of many services — defining APIs, data models, and dependency tiers that dozens of engineers build against. •Hands-on fluency with datacenter and GPU/HPC infrastructure — bare-metal provisioning (PXE/Redfish/IPMI), firmware and BIOS management, GPU health telemetry, and InfiniBand/RoCE fabrics. •Demonstrated technical leadership: driving architecture across multiple teams, mentoring senior engineers, and delivering multi-quarter roadmaps in ambiguous, 0→1 environments. •Strong software engineering fundamentals in at least one systems language (Go, Rust, C++, or similar) and the judgment to know when to build vs. adopt existing tooling. Compensation: •$285,000 - $335,000 / year •Competitive compensation and equity packages Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!