Senior Staff Software Engineer, Network Automation

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 seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to own how our network monitors, configures, and heals itself without human intervention. You will design and ship the automation frameworks, self-healing workflows, and observability platforms that allow our global network fleet to scale sublinearly with headcount. This is a senior technical leadership role at the intersection of Network Engineering, Software Engineering, and Infrastructure Reliability. You will partner with Network Architecture to translate intent-based designs into production automation, mentor a team of Staff and Senior engineers, and represent the automation org in cross-functional planning with Deployment, Operations, and Site Reliability. You're not writing scripts to replace manual tasks. You're building the control plane that makes the network intelligent. What You'll Be Working On - Own the Network Automation Platform: Define the technical roadmap for Crusoe's automation stack, from source of truth and config generation through day-2 operations, telemetry, and closed-loop remediation across our global fleet. - Build the Source of Truth: Design and own the authoritative data model (NetBox, Nautobot, or equivalent) that drives all network configuration, validation, and operational state across teams. - Architect Intent-Based Configuration Systems: Lead the design and delivery of declarative, model-driven configuration pipelines using Python, Nornir, Ansible, Jinja2, and CI/CD, treating the network as code and making configuration drift impossible. - Drive Model-Driven Automation: Own Crusoe's gNMI, OpenConfig, and NETCONF/YANG strategy for telemetry collection, configuration management, and state validation across multi-vendor fabrics (Arista, Juniper, NVIDIA/Mellanox). - Build Self-Healing Workflows: Design and ship event-driven, auto-remediation systems that detect faults, correlate telemetry, and resolve known failure modes without human escalation. - Define the Observability Platform: Set the technical direction for Crusoe's telemetry, metrics, alerting, and dashboarding stack including Prometheus, Grafana, and streaming gNMI. - Influence Architecture for Automability: Partner with Network Architecture to ensure designs are automation-first from day one, deployable, validatable, and operable programmatically at scale. - Mentor and Multiply: Provide technical guidance to Staff and Senior engineers. Drive code reviews, design reviews, and platform architecture decisions that raise the engineering bar across the org. What You'll Bring to the Team - 12+ years of network engineering experience with a demonstrated focus on production software engineering, platform engineering, and infrastructure as code in hyperscale or internet-scale environments. - Demonstrated Technical Leadership: P