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Director, Infrastructure Security
Crusoe · Energy & Utilities · 201-500 employees
San Francisco, CA · Onsite · full_time
CLI Career Level
Senior Director-equivalent
Moderate confidence
Opportunity Score
56/100
Mixed
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Executive Fit
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First seen Sep 3, 2026 · Last verified 2 hours ago · Sourced from LinkedIn — Director of Security (US)
CLI Take
Broader than the title suggests
This role reads Senior Director-equivalent despite being advertised as “Director, Infrastructure Security” — the stated scope is wider than the employer's title implies. CLI's analysis of the posting describes a strategic build or transformation mandate, and it reports to Senior Director of Security Engineering. The reporting line sits below the executive team — the role reports to a Director. Team size is not disclosed and remains the main open question before pursuing it.
Why this role scores the way it does
56/100 — mixed opportunity quality. CLI reads this as a Senior Director-equivalent mandate. Strongest signal: CLI's analysis of the posting describes a strategic build or transformation mandate. Main drag on the score: The reporting line sits below the executive team — the role reports to a Director. 2 of 10 dimensions are not disclosed, which lowers confidence rather than the score.
Career level read
Senior Director-equivalent — The employer lists this as “Director, Infrastructure Security”. CLI reads it as Senior Director-equivalent because the role shows executive committee exposure, reports to a Director, 201-500 employee organization.
Moderate confidence
What makes it attractive
- CLI's analysis of the posting describes a strategic build or transformation mandate.
- Title and described scope are broadly consistent.
What to probe before applying
- The reporting line sits below the executive team — the role reports to a Director.
- Scope language covers executive committee exposure.
Scoring components · Mixed
Compensation versus comparable roles55 · weight 15%
The employer discloses a base range, but there is no comparable set to benchmark it against yet.
Reporting level7 · weight 12%
The reporting line sits below the executive team — the role reports to a Director.
Functional and geographic scope21 · weight 12%
Scope language covers executive committee exposure.
Quality of the mandate100 · weight 12%
CLI's analysis of the posting describes a strategic build or transformation mandate.
Executive and board exposure65 · weight 10%
The posting references executive or committee-level interaction.
Role authority versus title70 · weight 10%
Title and described scope are broadly consistent.
Company scale and trajectory58 · weight 10%
Employer profile: 201-500 employee organization, vc backed ownership, series c, revenue 50m 250m.
Team ownershipNot disclosed · excluded from the score
Team size: not disclosed.
Budget ownershipNot disclosed · excluded from the score
Budget ownership: not disclosed.
Risk signals100 · weight 5%
No adverse signals identified in the posting.
Dimensions the employer does not disclose are excluded and the remaining weights are rebalanced, so missing information lowers confidence rather than the score.
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Compensation
$285,000 – $335,000 base salary, disclosed by employer
Sample size not yet sufficient for a market comparison
The role involves resource allocation and translating risks into resource investments, though a specific dollar budget is not stated.
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The mandate
This leader will head the Infrastructure Security Engineering domain, functioning as a strategic platform engineering organization rather than a traditional audit function. They are charged with building the organizational architecture and multi-year roadmaps for platform security services and cloud access governance across a hyper-scale GPU-cloud environment.
Reporting to the Senior Director of Security Engineering, this role leads a multi-team engineering organization. The remit covers Platform Security Services (Identity, PKI, Fleet Sensors, Hardware/Supply Chain) and Cloud Security Access and Posture Governance.
Scope
- Reports to Senior Director of Security Engineering
Domains and regulation
- Infrastructure Security
- Cloud Security
- Identity
- Identity
- Infrastructure Security
- DevSecOps
Requirements
Must have
- 10+ years of progressive security engineering experience.
- 5+ years leading second-line management structures or multi-team security organizations.
- Experience at hyper-scale cloud providers or infrastructure-intensive platforms.
- Proven success in organizational architecture and mentoring engineering managers.
- Broad architectural depth across Linux, hypervisors, container orchestration, IAM, and hardware/network primitives.
- In-person presence in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Preferred / bonus
- Nothing listed as optional.
Only must-have items are scored as hard constraints in Executive Fit.
Likely challenges
- Moving beyond 'passive auditing' to a strategic platform engineering model where security is built natively into the GPU-cloud product.
- Scaling organizational structures and leadership governance to keep pace with a hyper-scale fleet and multi-gigawatt data center infrastructure.
- Eliminating standing admin privileges and long-lived secrets through automated just-in-time access engines.
- Establishing hardware, firmware, and supply chain governance for custom GPU nodes and networks.
Not stated in the posting: Specific board reporting requirements not mentioned.; Applicable regulatory compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC2, ISO) not specified..
About Crusoe
Crusoe builds and operates modular data centers that utilize stranded energy sources, such as flared natural gas, to power high-performance computing workloads. The company provides sustainable cloud computing infrastructure for AI, machine learning, and cryptocurrency mining. Security leaders will encounter a distributed physical and digital footprint that spans energy production sites and traditional data center environments.
- Industry
- Energy & Utilities
- Headcount
- 201-500 employees
- Headquarters
- Denver, CO
- Founded
- 2018
- Ownership
- Venture backed
- Funding
- Series C · $503M raised
- Revenue
- $50M – $250M
- Investors
- Upper90, G2 Venture Partners, Polychain Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, Winklevoss Capital
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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.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.About the Role:As a GPU-cloud provider, Crusoe’s infrastructure is our product. Infrastructure Security Engineering is a critical executive domain in our security organization. Unlike traditional enterprise cloud security functions that act as passive auditors asking other teams to fix bugs, this is a strategic platform engineering organization. As Director of Infrastructure Security, you will define organizational strategy, scale leadership structures, and lead an expanding organization responsible for foundational security strategy across our hyper-scale fleet.Reporting directly to the Senior Director of Security Engineering, you will own the long-term strategic vision, organizational architecture, and executive execution across two core pillars: Platform Security Services and Cloud Security Access and Posture Governance. Leveraging extensive executive leadership experience, you will establish multi-year roadmaps, empower engineering managers, and build out high-performing organizational structures required to scale with Crusoe’s growth.What You'll Be Working On: Strategic Leadership, Organizational Architecture & Executive OversightOrganizational Strategy & Manager Leadership: Design and scale dedicated engineering domains across both pillars. Hire, mentor, and empower engineering managers and senior leaders, establishing clear organizational accountability, career paths, and leadership governance as Crusoe scales.Executive Alignment & Resource Allocation: Own multi-year strategic roadmaps, high-level domain metrics, and organizational risk reduction goals. Translate complex technical infrastructure risks into strategic business priorities and resource investments for executive stakeholders.Technical Vision & Governance: Set long-term architectural vision, applying first-principles strategy to guide engineering leadership, challenge legacy norms, and ensure all security initiatives align with Crusoe’s overarching mission. Strategy & Team Building for Platform Security ServicesIdentity, Secrets & PKI Strategy: Define the multi-year identity and access roadmap, ensuring the organization delivers scalable, secure-by-default primitives across the hyper-scale GPU fleet.Fleet Security & Sensor Strategy: Drive strategic planning and organizational alignment for fleet-wide runtime visibility, empowering engineering teams to deploy security sensors and kernel-level protections at scale.Hardware, Firmware & Supply Chain Governance: Establish organizational standards, risk policies, and oversight frameworks for hardware roots of trust, secure boot, firmware update validation, and software supply chain verification across custom GPU nodes and networks. Infrastructure Security Posture and Access GovernanceOrganizational Strategy & Growth: Formally establish the long-term vision, leadership structure, and operational roadmap for this function, driving sustainable organizational scale across Crusoe's infrastructure security domain.Control Plane & Cloud Security Governance: Establish high-level security architecture frameworks and governance for Crusoe’s control plane across public cloud environments and multi-gigawatt on-premise AI data center infrastructure.Zero-Trust & IAM Strategy: Champion executive initiatives to eliminate standing admin privileges and long-lived secrets, enabling leadership teams to deliver automated, just-in-time access engines and least-privilege models.Systemic Risk & Isolation Governance: Oversee the identification and mitigation of architectural risks, driving cross-functional alignment on tenant control plane isolation, decoupling execution environments, and enforcing structural blast-radius boundaries natively through Infrastructure-as-Code strategy.What You'll Bring to the Team:Executive Security Leadership: 10+ years of progressive security engineering experience, including 5+ years leading second-line management structures or multi-team security organizations at hyper-scale cloud providers or infrastructure-intensive platforms.Organizational Design & Manager Leadership: Proven success in organizational architecture, hiring, developing, and mentoring engineering managers, and building scalable team structures aligned with broader business objectives.Strategic Vision & First-Principles Thinking: Demonstrated track record of evaluating complex technical challenges from foundational principles, guiding engineering leaders to solve systemic architectural bottlenecks without defaulting to off-the-shelf vendor playbooks.Executive Stakeholder Management: Excellence in partnering with cross-functional executive leaders, setting multi-year talent and resource allocation strategies, and translating high-level infrastructure security risk into business context.Technical Credibility: Broad architectural depth across Linux, hypervisors, container orchestration, IAM frameworks, PKI, workload identity, and hardware or network primitives, sufficient to guide senior leaders and evaluate high-level system design.Location: In-person presence in the San Francisco Bay Area to partner closely with senior engineering and operational leadership.Benefits:Competitive compensation and equity packagesRestricted Stock UnitsPaid time off, paid holidays & leave of absence programsComprehensive health, dental & vision insuranceEmployer contributions to HSA accountPaid parental leavePaid life insurance, short-term and long-term disabilityProfessional development & tuition reimbursementMental health & wellness supportCommuter benefits (parking & transit)Cell phone stipend401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salaryVolunteer time offGlobal travel insurance & emergency assistanceDaily meals allowanceAdditional perks & programs specific to locationCompensation RangeCompensation will be paid in the range of up to $285,000 - $335,000 + 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.
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