Senior Engineering Manager, Data Plane Systems

Crusoe's mission is to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. We’re crafting the engine that powers a world where people can create ambitiously with AI — without sacrificing scale, speed, or sustainability.

Be a part of the AI revolution with sustainable technology at Crusoe. Here, you'll drive meaningful innovation, make a tangible impact, and join a team that’s setting the pace for responsible, transformative cloud infrastructure.

About the Role:

Crusoe is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, Data Plane Systems to lead the team responsible for high-performance SDN data planes across hosts and DPUs. In this hands-on senior leadership role, you will own the architecture, implementation, and production operation of a hardware-accelerated networking stack designed for large-scale GPU workloads. Unlike generic networking manager roles, this position focuses on delivering high-performance packet processing on aggressive timelines, often moving features from commit to production within days.

What You'll Be Working On:

• Technical Ownership: You will define the roadmap for SDN data plane systems and lead the integration of DPUs (such as NVIDIA BlueField) and hardware accelerators.

• Architecture & Optimization: You will oversee the development of Linux kernel networking components, XDP/eBPF data paths, and DPDK-based fast paths while driving the migration of networking functions to hardware offload architectures.

• Production Execution: You will lead performance benchmarking, regression prevention, and incident response, ensuring operational excellence within 3-6 month execution cycles.

• People Leadership: You will mentor and grow a team of senior and staff-level systems engineers, setting technical standards and fostering a high-performance culture of accountability.

• Collaboration: You will partner closely with control-plane teams (OVN/OVS) to optimize throughput and latency for multi-tenant GPU clusters.v

What You'll Bring to the Team:

• Extensive Experience: At least 10+ years in high-performance networking or systems engineering, with 5-7+ years specifically managing senior/staff-level talent.

• Technical Depth: Deep knowledge of Linux networking internals, kernel architecture, and experience with XDP/eBPF, AF_XDP, and DPDK.

• Hardware Expertise: Hands-on experience with DPU integration and migrating networking functions to hardware accelerators.

• Performance Focus: A strong understanding of low-latency networking, performance tuning, and benchmarking.

• Execution Mindset: The ability to resolve complex technical challenges in a fast-moving, execution-heavy environment.

Bonus Points

• Experience with RDMA/RoCE in GPU environments, P4 programmable networking, or open-source contributions to kernel systems.

Benefits:

• Industry competitive pay

• Restricted Stock Units in a fast growing, well-funded technology company

• Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents

• Employer contributions to HSA accounts 

• Paid Parental Leave 

• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability 

• Teladoc 

• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary

• Generous paid time off and holiday schedule

• Cell phone reimbursement

• Tuition reimbursement

• Subscription to the Calm app

• MetLife Legal

• Company paid commuter benefit; $300/month

Compensation Range

Compensation will be paid in the range of up to $237,600 -$288,000 + Bonus. Restricted Stock Units are included in all offers. Compensation to be determined by the applicant's knowledge, education, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

Crusoe is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, citizenship, marital status, sex/gender, sexual preference/ orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, national origin, or any other status protected by law or regulation.