Crusoe
AI infrastructure
SeniorStaffNetworkEngineer,Automation
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“Senior Staff Network Engineer, Automation at Crusoe. Skills: Network automation, Platform engineering, Model-driven automation, Infrastructure as code. Define automation stack roadmap. Build authoritative data model”
What You'll Achieve.
Scale network sublinearly with headcount
Industry & Context.
Problem-solving
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
12+ years network engineering experience, Production network automation experience, Platform engineering experience, Infrastructure as code experience, Hyperscale or internet-scale environments experience, Python or Go mastery, Model-driven automation fluency, Source of truth platform ownership, Hands-on expertise Arista EOS, Hands-on expertise Juniper Junos, Hands-on expertise NVIDIA Mellanox, Solid knowledge BGP, Solid knowledge EVPN-VXLAN, Solid knowledge LLDP, Track record building auto-remediation, Hands-on experience gNMI collectors, Hands-on experience Prometheus, Hands-on experience Grafana, Comfort operating at scale, Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Equivalent practical experience
Nice to Have
NetBox or Nautobot experience, Nornir experience, Ansible experience, Jinja2 experience, CI/CD experience, OpenConfig experience, NETCONF/YANG experience, Arista EOS experience, Juniper Junos experience, NVIDIA Mellanox experience, Prometheus experience, Grafana experience, gNMI experience
What You'll Do.
Define automation stack roadmap
Build authoritative data model
Design declarative configuration pipelines
Deliver model-driven configuration pipelines
Own OpenConfig strategy
Own NETCONF/YANG strategy
Build auto-remediation systems
Detect network faults
Correlate telemetry data
Resolve failure modes
Set telemetry direction
Set metrics direction
Set alerting direction
Set dashboarding direction
Ensure designs are automation-first
Ensure designs are deployable
Ensure designs are validatable
Ensure designs are operable programmatically
Provide technical guidance
Drive platform architecture decisions
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional planning; Partner with Network Architecture; Partner with Deployment; Partner with Operations; Partner with Site Reliability
Process & Methodology
Technical roadmap
Full Job Description
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 Network Automation 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 contr
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