About Groq
Groq delivers fast, efficient AI inference. Our LPU-based system powers GroqCloud™, giving businesses and developers the speed and scale they need. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, we are on a mission to make high performance AI compute more accessible and affordable. When real-time AI is within reach, anything is possible. Build fast.
Senior Staff Software Engineer
Mission: Your mission is to ensure the reliability of our APIs as customers route their AI workloads through Groq’s insanely fast, purpose-built hardware and software systems, ensuring seamless performance and exceptional service delivery.
Outcomes:
- Architect and Implement Scalable Systems: Contribute to the design of highly scalable, distributed systems that power Groq Cloud.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with engineers across the organization to deliver customer-focused features with strong reliability and performance from day one.
- Systems Optimization: Conduct performance analysis and fine-tuning to achieve exceptional system efficiency. Address complex challenges in latency, throughput, and scalability.
- Testing and Reliability: Develop robust automated testing frameworks to ensure system quality. Partner with teams to enhance deployment pipelines and observability standards.
- Innovation and Research: Evaluate and implement emerging technologies to maintain Groq’s competitive edge. Stay ahead of industry trends to drive innovation and growth.
- Security and Compliance: Uphold stringent security standards to safeguard data. Ensure systems adhere to regulatory compliance and company policies.
- Incident Response and Continuous Improvement: Operate the code you and your peers write in production, ensuring that thorough post-incident reviews are completed.
Ideal candidates have/are
- Distributed systems: Extensive experience in designing and building high-performance distributed systems across multiple clouds or data centers.
- Technical versatility: Proficiency in modern programming languages with a readiness to engage daily with Golang, Rust, Python, C++, Terraform, Flux.
- Systems expertise: Advanced understanding of Linux, Kubernetes, Cilium (eBPF), Prometheus, PostgreSQL, BigQuery.
- Network savvy: Robust knowledge in networking, high-performance computing, and observability.
- Orchestration experience: Many years of orchestrating vast and complex systems.
- CI/CD obsessed: Strong familiarity with Git and modern GitOps based software development lifecycle practices.
- Leadership and collaboration: Demonstrated ability to lead initiatives and collaborate effectively.
- Analytically minded: Skilled in dissecting and resolving multifaceted system and hardware issues.
- Passion for performance: A passion for obsessing about performance and highly reliable software and hardware.
Attributes of a Groqster:
- Humility - Egos are checked at the door
- Collaborative & Team Savvy - We make up the smartest person in the room, together
- Growth & Giver Mindset - Learn it all versus know it all, we share knowledge generously
- Curious & Innovative - Take a creative approach to projects, problems, and design
- Passion, Grit, & Boldness - no limit thinking, fueling informed risk taking
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!
Compensation: At Groq, a competitive base salary is part of our comprehensive compensation package, which includes equity and benefits. For this role, the base salary range is $248,000 to $336,000, determined by your skills, qualifications, experience and internal benchmarks.
Location: Groq is a geo-agnostic company, meaning you work where you are. Exceptional candidates will thrive in asynchronous partnerships and remote collaboration methods. Some roles may require being located near our primary sites, as indicated in the job description.
At Groq: Our goal is to hire and promote an exceptional workforce as diverse as the global populations we serve. Groq is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, inclusion, and belonging in all aspects of our organization. We value and celebrate diversity in thought, beliefs, talent, expression, and backgrounds. We know that our individual differences make us better.
Groq is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. We also take affirmative action to offer employment opportunities to minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans.
Groq is committed to working with qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities. Applicants who would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or who need special assistance or a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process may contact us at: talent@groq.com. This contact information is for accommodation requests only. Evaluation of requests for reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
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