Hiring: Staff Software Engineer, Security Company: Crusoe Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-13 14:50:59 Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, CI/CD, Data Pipeline, Event-Driven, GCP, IAM, IaC, Kubernetes, Linux, PKI, Rust, Vault About the job Experience: •8+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 5+ years of hands-on, production-grade programming experience in languages like Go, Rust. •4+ years of hands-on experience deploying on, securing, and managing applications at scale on Kubernetes and public cloud environments. Required Skills: •Architect & Build: Design, implement, and maintain highly scalable, distributed software systems that form Crusoe's core security engineering foundation. •Strategic Partnership: Partner closely with product security, infrastructure security platform engineering, and specialized security domain teams to translate complex business and regulatory needs into durable, automated technical solutions while retaining complete engineering ownership. •Data & Control Pipelines: Develop high-throughput control integrations and data pipelines to collect, normalize, and analyze security telemetry across identity systems (IAM), logs, vulnerability scanners, and continuous compliance (CCM/GRC) tools. •Metrics & Visibility Engines: Architect advanced metrics engines, real-time dashboards, and analytics insights pipelines that provide continuous visibility into overall compliance health, technical risk posture, and emerging security threats. •Technical Leadership: Provide technical direction, mentorship, and architectural oversight across the security engineering team, fostering a culture of high engineering standards, operational excellence, and continuous technical innovation. •Scaling product security controls: Integrate and scale automated security checks within CI/CD pipelines to ensure consistent security enforcement. •Platform Security Infrastructure: Architect and manage critical platform security services at scale, specifically PKI infrastructure, SPIFFE/SPIRE for identity, and HashiCorp Vault for secrets management, ensuring secure credential handling and identity management across our distributed environment. •Production-Grade Systems: Engineer secure, high-throughput distributed systems, utilizing deep Linux knowledge and Kubernetes expertise to solve complex infrastructure-level challenges. Qualifications: •Infrastructure & Systems: Expert-level proficiency in distributed systems, infrastructure automation, and developing robust, automated abstractions (like Kubernetes operators or platform-level service meshes) to manage infrastructure complexity. •Kubernetes Internals: Deep operational experience managing Kubernetes at scale, troubleshooting complex cluster issues, developing operators, and optimizing the control plane. •Security Platform Engineering: Demonstrated experience implementing and maintaining identity and secrets management solutions such as HashiCorp Vault and SPIFFE/SPIRE in production environments. •Advanced understanding of authentication, authorization at scale in distributed systems. •Active contributor to open-source security engineering projects or frameworks. 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!