Senior Infrastructure Engineer

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 Infrastructure Engineer

Mission:

At Groq were building a custom cloud from the ground up one data center at a time. Our Infrastructure Platform team owns the systems that turn racks of bare metal into production-ready Kubernetes clusters powering the next generation of AI workloads.

Were looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to help us scale this effort. This is a hands-on role focused on provisioning automation and working closely with our data center and networking teams to bring new sites online. If youre passionate about infrastructure enjoy debugging things close to the metal and want to grow your skills across Linux Kubernetes and distributed systems wed love to talk.

Responsibilities & opportunities in this role:

• Support the provisioning and deployment of Kubernetes clusters on bare metal servers.
• Help build and maintain tooling for bare metal provisioning including DHCP DNS PXE/iPXE/HTTPBoot and Talos Linux Machine Configuration.
• Write and maintain scripts and services (Go Python Bash) to automate deployment workflows across new and existing sites.
• Partner with data center operations and networking teams to ensure hardware is correctly configured connected and ready for use.
• Manage infrastructure configuration using tools like Git Flux and Terraform.
• Contribute to system documentation runbooks and tooling that makes our infrastructure reliable and repeatable.

Ideal candidates have/are:

• Experience with Linux / Kubernetes systems and comfort working in a terminal.
• Familiar with Locus Linux
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and Git-based workflows (e.g. Terraform Flux Kustomize).
• Ability to write and maintain basic tooling in Go Python or Bash.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals (IPAM VLANs DHCP DNS).
• Working knowledge of storage concepts (block vs object NFS RAID etc.).
• Strong sense of ownership and a willingness to dive into hardware firmware or low-level provisioning issues.

Nice to Have

• Experience provisioning physical machines in a data center environment.
• Exposure to Talos Linux Kubernetes bootstrapping or Kubernetes platform engineering.
• Previous collaboration with facilities hardware or network teams in an operational role.

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 wed 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 $132100 to $279800 determined by your skills qualifications experience and internal benchmarks.

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