Kubernetes Networking Platform Engineer

Groq, Inc.; San Francisco, New York (CA, NY); On-site; USD 270,000 - 402,000; Full time

Job summary

Groq, Inc. is seeking a seasoned network engineer to own networking across GroqMetal’s management plane and tenant clusters.

You will drive network architecture, security and production operations from host networking to data center fabrics and edge interconnects, with Kubernetes-native automation and GitOps at the core. You will be responsible for fabric-wide routing, IP addressing, isolation, and performance, including BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, Cilium, and GPU networking.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of TCP/IP, BGP, routing policy, peering, ECMP, segmentation, and interconnects.
• Bare-metal data center networking with leaf-spine fabrics and tenant separation (VLANs, VRFs, EVPN/VXLAN).
• Strong Kubernetes and Linux networking experience (CNI, Cilium, network policy).
• Kubernetes-native development, network automation, and GitOps with Go controllers.
• Experience delivering Kubernetes networking as a service with onboarding, provisioning, upgrades, and runtime support.
• Experience securing tenant networks and boundaries for customer workloads.
• Fabric management and IPAM systems (Netris, UFM, NetBox).
• GPU infrastructure networking including InfiniBand, RoCE, and NVL72 systems.
• Product judgment to translate customer requirements into platform capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer connectivity and performance requirements into platform features and lifecycle processes.
• Build Kubernetes-native automation for tenant networks and node membership, with isolation checks.
• Manage dynamic tenant data center routing, IPv4/IPv6, VLANs, and overlays via fabric-manager APIs.
• Own networking for Groq management plane and tenant clusters (Cilium, service routing, ingress/egress).
• Automate GPU networking configuration for tenant allocations and node changes.
• Ensure addressing and inventory consistency via IPAM and fabric APIs (Netris, NetBox, UFM).
• Define network security boundaries and conduct testing to verify isolation.
• Oversee production reliability, telemetry, and incident remediation; drive improvements.

Skills

TCP/IP

BGP

EVPN/VXLAN

Kubernetes networking

Cilium

GitOps

IPAM

NetBox

Netris

UFM

GPU networking

InfiniBand

RoCE

GPUDirect

Tools

NetBox

Netris

UFM

Job description

Groq, Inc. is seeking a seasoned network engineer to own networking across GroqMetal’s management plane and tenant clusters.

You will drive network architecture, security and production operations from host networking to data center fabrics and edge interconnects, with Kubernetes-native automation and GitOps at the core. You will be responsible for fabric-wide routing, IP addressing, isolation, and performance, including BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, Cilium, and GPU networking.