Groq
Staff Networking Platform Engineer, Infrastructure
San Francisco, USA · Staff+
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About the role
- Define how those features are requested, provisioned, changed, observed, and removed throughout their lifecycle.
- Verify isolation and connectivity at each transition, recover safely from partial failures, and remove stale configuration before resources are reassigned.
- Keep intended configuration, applied state, and inventory consistent throughout the tenant and node lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- You will own network architecture, configuration, security, and production operations-from host and cluster networking through data center fabrics to edge peering and interconnects.
- You'll manage changes through fabric managers, automation, and GitOps, backed by a detailed understanding of the protocols, packet paths, and failure behavior underneath them.
- Build Kubernetes-native automation to create, modify, and remove tenant networks and manage node membership through provisioning, scaling, repair, replacement, and reassignment.
- Own dynamic configuration of tenant networks, BGP, routing policy, VLANs, and overlays across management, tenant, and external networks.
- Build Kubernetes-native automation to provision and manage these capabilities through fabric-manager APIs, including customer service exposure, ingress/egress, VIPs, load balancers, and public IPs.
- Validate convergence, failover, reachability, and isolation.
- Own networking for the Groq management plane and tenant clusters, including Cilium, network policy, service routing, ingress, egress, and integration with bare-metal networks.
- Validate connectivity, isolation, and performance as tenant allocations and node membership change.
- Own dynamic address allocation, network inventory integration, and tenant network configuration through IPAM, NetBox, and fabric-manager APIs such as Netris and UFM.
- Own segmentation and traffic policy across the Groq management plane, tenant clusters, and physical fabrics.
Requirements
- Practical knowledge of CNI behavior, Cilium or comparable systems, network policy, service exposure, and the interaction between cluster networking and physical infrastructure.
- You have built Kubernetes controllers, operators, and custom resources in Go.
- You can integrate network APIs through reconciliation loops that handle retries, partial failures, and resource cleanup safely.
- You have managed changes through version control, code review, automated testing, and controlled rollout.
- You can turn customer requirements into supported features with defined behavior, limits, and operational procedures.
Nice to have
- Networking for large GPU clusters, including distributed workload performance, high-bandwidth east-west traffic, and multi-site connectivity.
- Product judgment grounded in networking:
- This range is specific to candidates located in the United States.
- Compensation for international candidates will vary based on local market dynamics.
Compensation
- $270k-$402k
Benefits
- Detect and reconcile configuration drift, and maintain tenant isolation as nodes enter, leave, or return to tenant networks during provisioning, repair, and reassignment.
Company info
- Success means customers can provision and use networking reliably, tenant boundaries are demonstrably enforced, and network changes and failures can be diagnosed and resolved without reconstructing the system by hand.
- Mission We're looking for a network engineer with deep data center and Kubernetes networking experience to own networking across GroqMetal's management plane and tenant clusters.
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