Senior Staff Software Engineer, Storage DPU

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Crusoe is building a globally distributed, high-performance storage platform purpose-built for AI/HPC workloads.

We're looking for a Senior Staff Software Engineer to own how Crusoe's storage stack uses DPUs (NVIDIA BlueField-class SmartNICs) and related hardware offload to move that work off the host CPU and onto purpose-built silicon. This is a software-defined-acceleration role sitting at the boundary between our storage data plane and the physical network/compute fabric — you'll design and build the control-plane and data-plane software that lets Crusoe's storage stack take advantage of hardware offload for NVMe-oF, RDMA, and related protocol-level work, in close partnership with the Storage Networking and Compute/Hypervisor teams.

You will set technical direction for DPU/offload strategy within Storage, work hands-on across the host/DPU boundary, and partner closely with the storage-networking, and Compute hypervisor-level DPU function

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep, hands-on systems-level programming (C, C++, or Rust) and production experience in Go, Java, or similar for control-plane/orchestration work.

• Direct, hands-on experience with SmartNICs/DPUs in production — NVIDIA BlueField (2/3), Intel IPU, ConnectX 6/7, or comparable hardware-offload platforms.

• Working knowledge of NVMe-oF, RDMA/RoCE/InfiniBand, and the storage protocols DPU offload commonly accelerates.

• Experience with kernel-bypass and hardware-offload techniques: SR-IOV, vDPA, virtio (virtio-blk/virtio-fs), XDP/eBPF, or DPDK/SPDK.

• Strong Linux systems background — kernel internals, device drivers, I/O subsystems — sufficient to debug issues that span host, hypervisor, and DPU.

• Experience contributing to at least one of file, block, or object storage systems, and genuine comfort working alongside (not reimplementing) mature storage data planes.

• Demonstrated ability to work across team boundaries — this role sits at the intersection of Storage, Networking, and Compute, and will not succeed as a purely heads-down IC function.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline

• Direct experience with NVIDIA DOCA, BlueField SNAP, or other DPU-native storage-virtualization frameworks.

• Experience building or operating NVMe-oF target/initiator offload in production.

• Prior work on multi-tenant hardware isolation (SR-IOV/vDPA) in a cloud or hyperscale environment.

• Familiarity with GPUDirect Storage or other GPU-to-storage data-path optimizations relevant to AI/HPC workloads.

• Open-source contributions to DPDK, SPDK, Open vSwitch, or similar projects.