Groq
Staff Kubernetes Platform Engineer, Infrastructure (GroqMetal)
San Francisco, USA · Staff+
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About the role
- You'll have the flexibility to work remotely while we establish our local Groq office, with the expectation that this role will transition to onsite once the office opens.
- Remain deeply hands-on: Write, review, test, debug, and operate substantial production code while providing Senior Staff technical leadership.
Responsibilities
- Design and build core
- Build a system, not just deploy technology:
- Design for stability and robustness:
- Design stable platform APIs and contracts that decouple the customer experience from changes in backend infrastructure.
- Every teammate is handpicked with intention because who we build with matters.
- Builders Wanted: You're not just riding the rocket ship, you're building it.
Requirements
- The person hired for this role must be based in one of these three areas.
- Experience with operators/controllers, CRDs, admission control, node lifecycle, cluster services, and production-grade platform design.
- Strong distributed-systems expertise:
- Practical knowledge and experience gained from delivering Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, or infrastructure control planes as a commercially critical or externally consumed product is highly valued, but not required.
- Experience using tools such as Codex, Claude Code, or similar systems/harnesses in substantive engineering work is highly valued
- Experience at a hyperscaler or neocloud supporting AI workloads or commercializing GPU clusters, with a strong understanding of the operational and product challenges of large-scale accelerator infrastructure.
- Comfort with ambiguity:
- Experience with inference platforms, accelerator/GPU infrastructure, device plugins, cloud infrastructure, or customer-facing platform products.
Compensation
- Groq is committed to providing competitive compensation through our Total Cash philosophy, which incorporates potential bonus value directly into base pay.
- The total cash salary ranges for this position, which is inclusive of the potential bonus value, is dependent by level: - Staff: $270,400 - $365,000 - Sr.
- Staff: $341,400 - $401,600 Individual placement within these ranges is determined by your geographic location, experience, skills, and alignment with internal compensation standards.
- Compensation for international candidates will vary based on local market dynamics.
- Beyond cash compensation, Groq also offers a Long-Term Incentive (LTI) Program and a robust suite of employee benefits. #LI-MS1
Benefits
- Compensation: Groq is committed to providing competitive compensation through our Total Cash philosophy, which incorporates potential bonus value directly into base pay.
- The total cash salary ranges for this position, which is inclusive of the potential bonus value, is dependent by level: - Staff: $270,400 - $365,000 - Sr.
- Beyond cash compensation, Groq also offers a Long-Term Incentive (LTI) Program and a robust suite of employee benefits. #LI-MS1
- Experience working through a robust SDLC, including design review, automated testing, CI/CD, staged rollout, rollback, observability, and incident learning.
Company info
- This is a hands-on Senior Staff role: you will write production software as part of a software engineering team.
- Leverage Kubernetes to build a commercial product for AI infrastructure, delivering production-grade Kubernetes services for dedicated customers running large-scale AI training and inference workloads.
- Our mission fuels everything we do.
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