Staff Software Engineer, Crusoe Container Registry

About the Role

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help make Crusoe Cloud's container registry fast and reliable as the platform grows. The registry sits on the critical path of every deployment and job launch on our platform, and its performance directly affects how quickly customer workloads come online. You'll own the evolution of the registry, drive its scaling roadmap, and be accountable for how it performs, degrades, and recovers in production.

What You'll Be Working On

• 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.

What You'll Bring to the Team

• Distributed systems at scale: Proven success designing, scaling, and hardening distributed systems under high-load production environments.
• A performance-driven mindset: Experience setting performance strategy and deep, practical experience profiling, benchmarking, and optimizing distributed systems (latency, throughput, caching, resource tradeoffs).
• Thrive in ambiguity: Ability to transform ambiguous performance problems into measured action and durable fixes.
• System-level ownership: Track record owning critical systems from design through production under operational pressure.
• Customer-centric mindset: Ability to translate customer needs into actionable codebase changes.
• Technical & infrastructure proficiency: Strong fundamentals in microservices and cloud-native infrastructure technologies alongside modern backend languages.
• Collaboration and communication: Comfortable working cross-functionally and explaining technical tradeoffs clearly.
• Mentorship: Experience mentoring teammates, raising technical bars, and contributing to hiring.
• Experience: 8+ years of professional software development experience, including time spent building and operating distributed systems.

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with the OCI image and distribution specs
• Experience building container registry products
• Experience with storage or caching systems at scale