Hiring: Staff Software Engineer, Crusoe Container Registry Company: Crusoe Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 14:50:59 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : C++, Docker, Java, Kubernetes, Microservices, OCI, Rust, Terraform About the job Experience: •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. Required Skills: •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. Make the engineers around you more effective, not just yourself. •Drive technical strategy across teams: Influence designs across adjacent teams, align with product and other partners on priorities and tradeoffs, and lead the technical response when things break. •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. Qualifications: •Operational familiarity with the OCI image and distribution specs Compensation: •$215,000 - $260,000 / 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!