Engineering Manager, SDN Control Plane

Lead the team building Crusoe Cloud's SDN control plane for VPC networking. Own the VPC control-plane roadmap, guide network virtualization and distributed control-plane architecture, support reliability and incident response, benchmark performance, mentor engineers, and collaborate with data-plane and cloud product teams.

Responsibilities

• Define the VPC control plane roadmap
• Drive the evolution of network virtualization systems
• Design distributed control-plane services
• Support reliability engineering and incident response
• Benchmark convergence and API latency
• Prevent regressions and maintain operational excellence
• Mentor and grow distributed systems engineers
• Set technical standards and promote accountability
• Collaborate with data-plane and cloud product teams

Requirements

• 6–8+ years in distributed systems or cloud networking engineering
• 2–4+ years managing engineering talent
• Knowledge of SDN and network virtualization
• Knowledge of VXLAN and Geneve
• Knowledge of VPC constructs
• Knowledge of BGP and EVPN
• Knowledge of OVN and OVS or equivalent control-plane architectures
• Experience building large-scale control planes
• Experience with state reconciliation, consistency tradeoffs, API design, and configuration propagation
• Experience with Go or Kubernetes-style controllers
• Understanding of SLOs, convergence-time benchmarking, graceful degradation, and blast-radius containment
• Experience with DPU or SmartNIC data planes
• Experience with cloud load balancing or NAT at scale
• Experience with network security policy engines

Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Leave of absence programs
• Comprehensive health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Employer contributions to HSA account
• Paid parental leave
• Paid life insurance
• Short-term disability insurance
• Long-term disability insurance
• Professional development
• Tuition reimbursement
• Mental health and wellness support
• Commuter benefits
• Cell phone stipend
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
• Volunteer time off
• Global travel insurance and emergency assistance
• Daily meals allowance
• Additional location-specific perks