Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Networking (Groq Metal)

Groq, Inc.; United States; À distance; USD 270 000 - 402 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Groq, Inc. is hiring a Sr Staff/Staff Infrastructure Engineer to own the bare-metal layer of our platform, ensuring thousands of servers across data centers stay healthy, secure, and tenant-friendly.

You'll lead provisioning, OS lifecycle, BMC/firmware management, and datacenter networking while collaborating with K8s teams to keep the floor solid and production-ready.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in production infrastructure with 3+ years owning bare-metal lifecycle at scale.
• Strong datacenter networking: BGP, leaf/spine, MTU, congestion control, fabric debugging.
• Production Kubernetes operations including cluster bring-up and CNI internals.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Helm) and GitOps; on-call experience.

Responsabilités

• Own bare-metal lifecycle at scale and hardware health remediation.
• Manage datacenter networking fabric and tenant isolation.
• Oversee Kubernetes substrate and cluster operations.
• Lead new datacenter bring-up to production capacity.
• Participate in on-call and design discussions for the physical layer.

Connaissances

Bare-metal lifecycle

Datacenter networking

Kubernetes operations

GitOps practices

On-call for fleet

Outils

Terraform

Helm

GitOps

Description du poste

Mission

We're hiring a Sr Staff/Staff Infrastructure Engineer to own the bare-metal layer of our platform: how thousands of physical servers across multiple data centers become healthy, secure, tenant-assignable Kubernetes nodes — and stay that way.

We're hiring a Sr Staff/Staff Infrastructure Engineer to own the bare-metal layer of our platform: how thousands of physical servers across multiple data centers become healthy, secure, tenant-assignable Kubernetes nodes — and stay that way.

This role sits on the Platform Engineering team and is the technical lead for everything below the Kubernetes API: server provisioning, OS lifecycle, datacenter networking fabric, BMC / firmware management, and integration with modern DPUs.

Location

This role will be based in one of our three hiring hubs: the Dallas, San Francisco, or New York City area. The person hired for this role must be based in one of these three areas. You’ll have the flexibility to work remotely while we establish our local Groq office, with the expectation that this role will transition to onsite once the office opens.

What You’ll Own

• Bare-metal lifecycle at scale— automated server bring-up (PXE/iPXE, Metal3, Ironic, kubeadm), OS image lifecycle, BIOS/firmware/BMC fleet management, hardware health telemetry and remediation.
• Datacenter networking fabric— leaf/spine, BGP, ECMP, RoCE, congestion control, tenant traffic isolation, IPAM, switch automation. You'll partner with our networking architects on Spectrum-X-class fabrics that power multi-tenant AI workloads at line rate.
• Kubernetes substrate— the host clusters that run our multi-tenant control plane (Cilium CNI, Karpenter for capacity, GitOps via Flux/Argo, virtual cluster integration). You won't be the K8s app developer, but you'll be the person the K8s app developers trust to keep the floor solid.
• New datacenter bring-up— turn "rack lands on the floor" into "production capacity available to customers" as a repeatable, automated workflow.
• Day-2 operations— partner with DC field staff on hardware faults, maintenance windows, and on-call response. Be the voice of the physical layer in platform design conversations.

Required

What we're looking for:

• 8+ years in production infrastructure, with at least 3 years owning bare-metal lifecycle at scale.
• Strong in datacenter networking fundamentals: BGP, leaf/spine, MTU, congestion control, fabric debugging.
• Production Kubernetes operations experience — cluster bring-up, CNI internals, fleet upgrades.
• Comfort with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm) and GitOps.
• Has been on-call for a fleet of physical machines and knows what that costs.

Bonus

• NVIDIA GPU clusters at scale (H100 / GH200 / GB200 / NVL72) — driver stack, NCCL, NVLink, GPU Operator.
• DPUs (NVIDIA BlueField, AMD Pensando) and offload patterns.
• Spectrum-X / RoCE / InfiniBand fabrics for AI workloads.
• Background in hyperscaler infra, AI cloud (CoreWeave / Crusoe / Lambda / Together), HFT, or HPC.

Why Join Us

• Purposeful Hiring: You’re not here by accident, and neither is anyone else. Every teammate is handpicked with intention because who we build what matters.
• Builders Wanted: You’re not just riding the rocket ship, you’re building it. Your work directly shapes the trajectory of our company.
• Mission-Driven Work: We’re here to make a real impact. Our mission fuels everything we do.
• Tackling Hard Problems: If easy isn’t your thing, you’re in the right place. We solve some of the most complex and exciting challenges in our space.
• Excellence Is The Standard: High performance isn’t just encouraged, it’s the baseline. And it’s contagious.

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!

Compensation

Groq is committed to providing competitive compensation through our Total Cash philosophy, which incorporates potential bonus value directly into base pay. The total cash salary ranges for this position, which is inclusive of the potential bonus value, is dependent by level:

• Staff: $270,400 - $365,000
• Sr Staff: $341,400 - $401,600

Individual placement within these ranges is determined by your geographic location, experience, skills, and alignment with internal compensation standards. These ranges are specific to candidates located in the United States. Compensation for international candidates will vary based on local market dynamics. Beyond cash compensation, Groq currently offers a quarterly bonus as an interim alternative to equity, with plans to introduce long term incentive program participation in the near term future. Employees also receive a robust suite of benefits.