Engineering Manager, Cloud Monitoring Services Platform

📋 Job Overview

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.

🏢 About Crusoe

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.

🎯 The Role

Crusoe builds cloud infrastructure for AI workloads. Cloud Monitoring Services owns observability across Crusoe Cloud: metrics, logs, alerting, and the telemetry agent that runs on every node in the fleet. Our customers run large, demanding AI training and inference workloads, and they depend on us for a clear, trustworthy view of what their infrastructure is doing.

We are hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the Platform team: the time series and log storage systems, and the query layer that serves every dashboard, API call, and investigation on top of them. This is a first-line management role reporting to the Engineering Manager for Cloud Monitoring Services. You will take direct people management responsibility for a team of 4 to 6 engineers, growing, and own how telemetry is stored, retained, and read back at fleet scale.

This is a people-first leadership role with real delivery stakes. You will bring the technical depth to guide hard calls and earn your team's trust, but your success is measured through what your team accomplishes. Query latency, retention, and storage cost are live tradeoffs your team will be making continuously, and customers feel all three directly. The role sits alongside peer managers who own telemetry collection and the ingestion pipeline, and together you run a platform that has to work end to end. This is a full-time position.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Grow and develop your team. Manage 4 to 6 engineers directly: 1:1s, career growth, performance, and team health, with the team growing over time.
• Own storage and query. Be accountable for the time series and log storage systems and the query layer on top of them, including how they behave under load and how much they cost to run.
• Own delivery. Plan and sequence work across a roadmap that mixes customer-facing feature work with storage and query infrastructure, and make honest calls early when a plan is at risk.
• Set the technical direction for your area. Partner closely with the Staff engineers who own technical direction across the platform, so they can focus on engineering rather than absorbing delivery and handoff work alone. Ask the hard questions and make sound tradeoff calls alongside your engineers.
• Keep the operational bar high. Query is on the critical path when something is wrong in the fleet, so availability, query performance, and correctness of what comes back are core to the job, not afterthoughts.
• Own the team's oncall rotation and the operational health of the storage and query stack.
• Manage cost and scale together. Retention policy, downsampling, cardinality, and storage tiering are product decisions as much as engineering ones, and you will be in those conversations.
• Coordinate across team boundaries. Your team consumes what the collection and ingestion teams produce and serves internal platform teams as well as external customers, so sequencing dependencies and escalating early is a core part of the job.
• Shape the team over time. Work with recruiting on sourcing, run a high-quality interview loop, close strong candidates, and onboard them well.
• Collaborate across functions. Partner with product, neighboring infrastructure teams, peer managers, and leadership to keep priorities aligned as the observability product expands.

📌 Required Qualifications

• You care about people. You want the engineers around you to grow, you give feedback that's both direct and kind, and you measure your own success through your team's.
• Technical depth. 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience, ideally in backend or distributed systems: databases, storage engines, query engines, streaming pipelines, or other data-intensive services (Go, Rust, Java, or C++ environments), and hands-on familiarity with Kubernetes. This role stays close to the technical work.
• Experience managing engineers. 2+ years managing software engineers directly, including owning performance cycles and career conversations. This team has an active roadmap and live customer commitments, so we are looking for someone who has run a team through delivery before.
• Experience coaching senior and staff-level engineers, and comfort partnering with strong technical leads rather than competing with them.
• A track record of shipping. You've delivered multi-phase projects against fixed deadlines, and you know how to keep infrastructure work moving alongside feature work rather than letting one crowd out the other.
• Operational judgment

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with time series databases, log storage systems, or query engines.
• Experience managing teams in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and observability tools.

🎁 Benefits

Competitive salary, health insurance, retirement benefits, and other standard benefits.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

U.S. work authorization required.