Kubernetes Platform Engineer — AI Infra for Large-Scale Workloads

Groq, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 303,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

LTI program

Employee benefits

Job summary

GroqMetal is building an infrastructure platform that turns large-scale physical compute into a reliable, isolated, customer-consumable product. As a Kubernetes Platform Engineer, you will build and operate production software within the GroqMetal platform, helping deliver Kubernetes as a commercial product for customers running large-scale AI training and inference workloads.

You will own meaningful platform components, work alongside experienced infrastructure engineers, and develop deep

Qualifications

• Experience designing, implementing, testing, shipping, and maintaining production software.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience: building or operating Kubernetes-based systems.
• Production infrastructure experience across application, Kubernetes, networking, compute, and infra layers.
• Solid distributed-systems fundamentals: failure handling, retries, idempotency, consistency, reconciliation, availability, recovery.
• Experience with disciplined software development: code review, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, deployment, production operations.

Responsibilities

• Build production Kubernetes platform capabilities: APIs, controllers, operators, automation, platform services.
• Own components end to end from design to testing, deployment, operation, and improvement.
• Operate what you build: improve reliability, observability, performance, and incident resolution.
• Build a Kubernetes platform as a commercial product for customers running large AI workloads.
• Develop distributed systems expertise: handle retries, failures, concurrency, reconciliation, and state changes.
• Improve the platform by addressing reliability, scalability, and usability issues with durable solutions.
• Collaborate across infrastructure, inference, networking, infosec and related teams to integrate capabilities.
• Grow technical scope by contributing to design discussions and decisions.

Skills

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Software development

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

Codex

Job description

GroqMetal is building an infrastructure platform that turns large-scale physical compute into a reliable, isolated, customer-consumable product. As a Kubernetes Platform Engineer, you will build and operate production software within the GroqMetal platform, helping deliver Kubernetes as a commercial product for customers running large-scale AI training and inference workloads.

You will own meaningful platform components, work alongside experienced infrastructure engineers, and develop deep