Staff Infrastructure Engineer, GroqCloud

Staff Infrastructure Engineer, GroqCloud

Mission: Design, build, and maintain the infrastructure of GroqCloud as we 100x traffic in the coming year.

Responsibilities & opportunities in this role:

• 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.

Ideal candidates have/are:

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering or a related field.
• 3+ 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.

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 $226,000 to $305,000, determined by your skills, qualifications, experience and internal benchmarks.