Groq
Kubernetes Platform Engineer, Infrastructure (GroqMetal)
San Francisco, USA
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$8,349 more — $193,149 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $193,149 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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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.
- Collaboration is a core skill: Work within a team of experts to elevate the collective efforts of our team.
Responsibilities
- Build production
- Implement APIs, controllers, operators, automation, and platform services that support the GroqMetal product by extending Kubernetes.
- Own components end to end:
- Take responsibility for well-defined platform capabilities from design and implementation through testing, deployment, operation, and continuous improvement.
- Operate what you build:
- Build a Kubernetes platform as a commercial platform:
- Develop distributed systems expertise:
- Build software that handles retries, failures, concurrency, reconciliation, and changing infrastructure state correctly.
- Identify reliability, scalability, and usability problems and work with the team to deliver durable solutions.
- Collaborate with engineers across infrastructure, inference, networking, infosec, and related teams to integrate platform capabilities holistically.
Requirements
- The person hired for this role must be based in one of these three areas.
Skills
- Experience using coding agents such as Codex, Claude Code, or similar tools in substantive engineering work is valued.
- Interested in the AI infrastructure domain:
- Comfortable growing through ambiguity:
- Why Join Us:
- Builders Wanted:
- Your work directly shapes the trajectory of our company.
- Mission-Driven Work:
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 range for this position, which is inclusive of the potential bonus value, is $184,800 - $302,500, with individual placement 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.
- Beyond cash compensation, Groq also offers a Long-Term Incentive (LTI) Program and a robust suite of employee benefits. #LI-MS1
Company info
- Develop capabilities used by dedicated customers running large-scale AI training and inference workloads.
- Our mission fuels everything we do.
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