Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud Storage

Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster. We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI. We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services. If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe. About This Role Crusoe is building a vertically integrated, climate aligned, high performance AI cloud. We are rapidly scaling our infrastructure to meet the industry's most high value workloads. As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will lead the team responsible for the architecture, delivery, and operations of our high performance environments. You will manage a team with the dual mandate of operating our current petabyte scale infrastructure and building the next generation, bespoke cloud storage platform optimized for AI and HPC workloads. This is a high impact role where your leadership, strategy, and decisions directly impact revenue and the success of our customers’ most critical pipelines. You will partner cross functionally across key engineering teams and operate with direct visibility at the VP and SVP level. What You’ll Be Working On: Team Leadership & People Development - Lead and grow a team of software engineers spanning all levels with a focus on career development, performance management, and building a high-performing engineering culture - Set clear team goals, run structured performance reviews, and create individualized growth paths that help engineers advance their careers - Foster a team environment where ownership is distributed, calculated risk-taking is encouraged, and engineers are empowered to solve hard problems - Drive recruiting and hiring to grow the team; eventually owning the full hiring process Project Management & Execution - Clearly translate product requirements into actionable engineering plans, from architecture and design through task breakdown, estimation, and delivery - Maintain a clear view of dependencies, resourcing, and sequencing across parallel workstreams to keep projects on track - Coordinate across partner teams and external vendors to ensure storage integrates cleanly into the broader Crusoe Cloud platform Technical Oversight - Lead architecture and design reviews, providing substantive technical input and holding the bar for quality across your team's work - Maintain enough technical depth to conduct meaningful code reviews and engage credibly with your most senior engineers on complex design decisions - Drive incident response for storage-related issues, ensuring fast resolution and durable fixes for business-critical systems - Develop a strong understanding of the full storage stack from NAND to GPU, focusing on performance characteristics and submillisecond latency required by our AI/ML customer access patterns. Cross-Functional & Organizational Impact - Serve as the primary technical representative for Storage in cross-functional initiatives, ensuring your team's needs and constraints are well-understood by partner teams and leadership - Build strong working relationships with Compute, SDN, SRE, and CCX teams to ensure