Senior Staff Infrastructure Engineer, GroqCloud

Groq, Inc. • Palo Alto, CA

28d • $282,100 - $331,900

About The Position

Mission: Design, build, and operate large-scale cloud systems to deliver the fastest inference engine in the world.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering or a related field.
• 5+ 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

• At Groq, a competitive base salary is part of our comprehensive compensation package, which includes equity and benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees