Staff Software Engineer, SecurityActive$215K–$260K

The opportunity

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.

What you'll do

  • 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.

What they're looking for

  • 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.
  • On This Team, You Will Tackle complex security and compliance puzzles at: cutting-edge scale within cloud and distributed infrastructure.
  • Collaborate with a brilliant, multidisciplinary team of engineers who are: redefining compliance adherence for modern infrastructure.