Staff Software Engineer, Streaming Systems

Groq, Inc.•Palo Alto, CA

47d•$245,800 - $289,200•Hybrid

About The Position

Design and build the real-time data infrastructure that powers GroqCloud's global revenue engine, processing hundreds of billions of events each day, sustaining millions of writes per second, and enabling a multi-billion-dollar business to operate in real time. Drive the intelligence layer that fuels global billing, analytics, and real-time business operations at worldwide scale.

Requirements

Strong background in real-time data processing, distributed systems, and analytics infrastructure.
Hands-on experience with streaming technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, or Redpanda and real-time analytics databases such as Clickhouse, Druid, or Pinot.
Deep understanding of serialization, buffering, and data flow optimization in high-throughput systems.

Nice To Haves

Experience deploying and managing workloads on Kubernetes.
A passion for systems performance, profiling, and low-latency optimization.
Familiarity with gRPC and RESTful API design.

Responsibilities

Architect high-performance data pipelines to ingest, process, and transform millions of structured and semi-structured events daily.
Build distributed, fault-tolerant frameworks for streaming data from diverse sources.
Create data services and APIs that make usage and billing data easily accessible across the platform.
Develop lightweight tools and dashboards to monitor and visualize data ingestion, throughput, and system health.

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