Senior Director, Cloud Engineering

As Senior Director, Engineering, you'll run the team behind Crusoe's customer-facing cloud platform. This is the software layer customers depend on every day - from developer portal and identity to billing, registries, metrics, and managed logging. You'll lead a 60+ person Product Engineering org through senior managers and engineering leads. You'll set technical direction, drive the roadmap, and keep the bar high on reliability, security, and on-call execution. The role sits close to customers and close to the technical core. When a platform bet matters or a customer issue turns critical, you'll help lead the response. You'll report to the Vice President of Engineering.

Responsibilities

Lead a 60+ person Product Engineering org through senior managers and engineering leads; Drive the roadmap for Crusoe's customer-facing cloud platform and managed services; Set direction for developer portal, identity, billing, interfaces, registries, metrics, and managed logging; Ship the roadmap with Product and Infrastructure while raising quality, reliability, security, and on-call rigor; Step into major customer escalations and key product decisions when stakes are high; Turn customer needs into platform capabilities with Sales and Solutions Engineering; Build shared technical foundations with Crusoe's broader infrastructure and AI platform teams

Requirements

12+ years in software engineering and 5+ years leading 40-100+ engineer orgs; Leading Directors and senior Engineering Managers is familiar ground and you know how to scale through leaders; You've owned a cloud platform customers pay for - IaaS, PaaS, or managed services - and know what reliability feels like in production; You're AI tooling fluent and passionate about the ecosystem, the user experience, and have an interest in pushing the envelope; Distributed systems and cloud infrastructure are home turf and you can go deep with engineers and make sound calls at platform scale; In growth-stage settings, you've kept teams moving through ambiguity without letting quality or on-call discipline slip; You're a builder who creates structure the team needs when the playbook is thin; Direct, low-ego leadership matters and you raise standards without adding noise

Nice to have

Time inside AWS, GCP, Azure, CoreWeave, Lambda Labs, or a similar cloud provider will help you ramp faster; AI/ML platform work at scale is a useful context for the managed services we build; Past experience scaling an engineering org through rapid growth will translate well here; You've built products for both developers and enterprises, with a clear eye for user experience

Benefits

Competitive compensation and equity packages; Restricted Stock Units; Paid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programs; Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance; Employer contributions to HSA account; Paid parental leave; Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability; Professional development & tuition reimbursement; Mental health & wellness support; Commuter benefits (parking & transit); Cell phone stipend; 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary; Volunteer time off; Global travel insurance & emergency assistance; Daily meals allowance; Additional perks & programs specific to location