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Staff Infrastructure Engineer, GroqCloud

Groq (View all Jobs)

Palo Alto, CA

Salary

$226,000-$305,000

Programming Languages Mentioned

Swift

About Groq

Groq delivers fast, efficient AI inference. Our LPU-based system powers GroqCloud™, giving businesses and developers the speed and scale they need. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, we are on a mission to make high performance AI compute more accessible and affordable. When real-time AI is within reach, anything is possible. Build fast.

Staff Infrastructure Engineer, GroqCloud

Mission: Design, build, and maintain the infrastructure of GroqCloud as we 100x traffic in the coming year.

Responsibilities & opportunities in this role:

  • Infrastructure Development: Design, build, and automate cloud infrastructure using Terraform to support a wide variety of needs.
  • Service Deployment & Orchestration: Build and manage robust deployment pipelines and GitOps workflows into Kubernetes-based environments. Continuously improve CI/CD processes to facilitate rapid, reliable rollouts of new features and services, ensuring minimal downtime and maximum velocity.
  • System troubleshooting: Lead investigations to determine root causes of system failures and develop scripts to repair and automate the upkeep of infrastructure components.
  • Observability enhancement: Implement comprehensive monitoring (tracing, metrics, logging, alerting) to swiftly pinpoint, diagnose, and resolve system issues.
  • Efficient incident response: Manage critical system incidents as a first responder, ensuring swift resolution and comprehensive post-incident analyses with implemented remediations.
  • Cross Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with software engineers, platform & networking engineers, product managers and sales to enable feature delivery.

You would be a great fit for this role if you have the following: 

  • 6+ years of experience in software engineering or a related field.
  • 4+ years experience with GCP (especially VPC, Hybrid Networking, IAM, and GKE).
  • Actively working with modern Infrastructure-as-Code technologies (Kubernetes, Terraform, Flux/ArgoCD, Kustomize, Crossplane)
  • Experience with open-source monitoring tool (Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaLogging and Alert Manager)
  • Deep experience in cloud technologies, global scale applications, and automation.
  • Familiarity with multi-region deployments, including the associated networking, latency, and failover challenges
  • History of debugging production issues, mitigating, and driving efficient resolution.
  • Comfortable reading, writing, and debugging software in multiple languages, especially Go and Rust.
  • Thorough understanding of cloud-security best practices and modern compliance controls.

Attributes of a Groqster:

  • Humility - Egos are checked at the door
  • Collaborative & Team Savvy - We make up the smartest person in the room, together
  • Growth & Giver Mindset - Learn it all versus know it all, we share knowledge generously
  • Curious & Innovative - Take a creative approach to projects, problems, and design
  • Passion, Grit, & Boldness - no limit thinking, fueling informed risk taking

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!

Compensation: At Groq, a competitive base salary is part of our comprehensive compensation package, which includes equity and benefits. For this role, the base salary range is $226,000 to $305,000, determined by your skills, qualifications, experience and internal benchmarks.

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Location: Some roles may require being located near or on our primary sites, as indicated in the job description.  

At Groq: Our goal is to hire and promote an exceptional workforce as diverse as the global populations we serve. Groq is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, inclusion, and belonging in all aspects of our organization. We value and celebrate diversity in thought, beliefs, talent, expression, and backgrounds. We know that our individual differences make us better.

 

Groq is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.  We also take affirmative action to offer employment opportunities to minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans.

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