Engineering Manager, SDN Control Plane
Crusoe · San Francisco, CA - US
About this role
## Crusoe — Engineering Manager, SDN Control Plane Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company, we build and operate each layer of the stack—from electrons to tokens—to power the world’s most ambitious AI workloads. We’re seeking an **Engineering Manager, SDN Control Plane** to lead the team building a **scalable control plane for VPC networking** in the Crusoe Cloud frontend network. ### About the Role In this hands-on leadership role, you will own the services on the network control plane that **program multi-tenant virtual networks** across large-scale GPU fleets. This is not a generic networking management role—focus is on **control-plane scale and reliability** with aggressive timelines, often moving features from commit to production within days. ### What You’ll Be Working On - **Technical Ownership:** Define the roadmap for the VPC control plane and drive the evolution of network virtualization systems (e.g., **OVN/OVS**) delivering **VPCs, subnets, security groups, load balancing, NAT, and internet/hybrid connectivity**. - **Architecture & Scale:** Help design distributed control-plane services including **intent APIs, state reconciliation, network policy compilation**, and **southbound programming** of hosts and DPUs—while scaling beyond current fleet size. - **Production Execution:** Partner with reliability engineering on **convergence**, **API-latency benchmarking**, **regression prevention**, and **incident response** to ensure operational excellence within **3–6 month execution cycles**. - **People Leadership:** Mentor and grow a team of **mid-level to senior distributed systems engineers**, setting technical standards and fostering a high-performance culture of accountability. - **Collaboration:** Work closely with **data-plane teams** (XDP/eBPF, DPDK, DPU offload) and cloud product teams to deliver **low-latency, highly available networking** for multi-tenant GPU clusters. ### What You’ll Bring to the Team - **Solid Experience:** **6–8+ years** in distributed systems or cloud networking engineering, with **2–4+ years** managing engineering talent. - **Technical Depth:** Strong SDN/network virtualization knowledge: **overlay networking** (VXLAN/Geneve), **VPC constructs**, **routing** (BGP/EVPN), and control-plane architectures such as **OVN/OVS** (or equivalent). - **Distributed Systems Expertise:** Hands-on experience building large-scale control planes: **state reconciliation**, **consensus/consistency trade-offs**, **API design**, and **fleet-wide configuration propagation**.
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