Sr. Staff Platform Security Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure

Groq•Worth, IL

22d•$341,400 - $401,600

About The Position

Build and scale security foundations that enable customers to run sensitive AI workloads on Groq’s inference platform. The role sets technical direction and develops security capabilities across identity and access, Kubernetes, multi-tenant infrastructure, secrets, encryption, and key and certificate management. As a senior software engineer and technical leader, the engineer partners across Platform Engineering to turn complex security requirements into durable, automated systems that scale with the platform. The role is based in one of Groq’s hiring hubs in the Dallas, San Francisco, or New York City area. The employee may work remotely while Groq establishes a local office, with the expectation that the role will transition to onsite once the office opens. The total cash salary range is $341,400–$401,600 for candidates located in the United States, inclusive of potential bonus value. Individual placement depends on geographic location, experience, skills, and alignment with internal compensation standards. International compensation varies by local market. Groq also offers a Long-Term Incentive (LTI) Program and employee benefits.

Requirements

At least 6 years of software engineering experience building complex infrastructure or distributed systems, with deep experience in cloud and platform security, identity and access, Kubernetes, or related infrastructure security domains.
Demonstrated experience setting technical direction and owning complex security architecture across multiple systems, teams, or infrastructure domains.
Deep experience with identity and access technologies such as OIDC, SAML, SCIM, RBAC, workload identity, short-lived credentials, and multi-factor authentication.
Deep experience designing security for multi-tenant systems and isolation across network, compute, storage, and control-plane boundaries.
Hands-on Kubernetes security expertise, including RBAC, admission control, service-account and workload identity, secrets and encryption, policy enforcement, and node security.
Strong understanding of secrets management, encryption, key management, certificate lifecycle, and secure credential management.
Strong software engineering skills in Go, Python, or similar languages, with experience designing, building, and operating production systems.
Software-first approach to security, with experience building controls through APIs, controllers, automation, policy, Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps, or similar approaches.
Experience leading ambiguous, cross-functional technical initiatives and influencing engineering direction across teams.
Ability to reason about complex security systems end to end and communicate technical risk and architectural tradeoffs clearly to different audiences.

Nice To Haves

Experience building identity, key-management, network security, or infrastructure security capabilities for cloud platforms.
Experience with network policy and encryption or security for high-performance storage and distributed infrastructure.
Experience translating security and compliance requirements into automated evidence and production-ready controls.
Experience building Kubernetes operators, admission webhooks, or similar infrastructure automation.

Responsibilities

Set technical direction and own architecture for critical platform security capabilities across identity, authorization, infrastructure security, encryption, key management, and auditability.
Design and build identity and access systems spanning authentication, federation, authorization, workload identity, lifecycle provisioning, and administrative access.
Build and scale security capabilities for Kubernetes and other distributed infrastructure using software, policy, automation, APIs, controllers, Infrastructure-as-Code, and GitOps.
Architect security controls and isolation mechanisms for multi-tenant systems across compute, network, storage, and control-plane boundaries.
Own infrastructure lifecycle security, including secure provisioning, secrets and credential management, encryption, and certificate lifecycle.
Build production software and automation that make secure infrastructure patterns reliable, scalable, and easy for engineering teams to adopt.
Lead security-sensitive platform designs and changes, translating complex risks and requirements into practical engineering decisions and scalable platform capabilities.
Shape security architecture and technical standards across Platform Engineering, influencing designs beyond the systems directly owned.
Partner across engineering and security to build capabilities that strengthen customer trust and platform reliability and support compliance requirements.
Communicate security architecture, technical tradeoffs, and risk to engineers, technical leaders, and security leadership.