Groq delivers fast, efficient AI inference. Our LPU-based system powers GroqCloud™, giving businesses and developers the speed and scale they need. From our Bay Area roots to our growing global presence, 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.

About Groq

Groq delivers fast, reliable AI inference. Our LPU-based system powers GroqCloud™, giving businesses and developers the speed and scale they need. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, we’re 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.

Mission

Join the team that builds and operates Groq’s deployment systems—empowering engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure workloads across large-scale Kubernetes environments. Your work will enable deterministic, automated, and observable deployments across multiple regions and clusters, ensuring Groq remains the fastest inference provider on earth.

Responsibilities & Opportunities in This Role

Deployment Engineering: Design, implement, and optimize large-scale multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments supporting mission-critical workloads.
Custom Controllers & Operators: Build Kubernetes controllers and operators in Go to support continuous deployment strategies for model instances and production workloads.
Delivery Strategies: Implement advanced deployment patterns (blue/green, canary, progressive delivery) to ensure safe and reliable production rollouts.
GitOps at Scale: Drive GitOps practices using (and building on top of) Flux (preferred) or ArgoCD, ensuring reproducible, declarative, and auditable deployments.
Observability & Diagnostics: Inject observability into every deployment—leveraging Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry for metrics, logging, and tracing.
Reliability Engineering: Architect automated rollback, health checks, and failover mechanisms to maximize uptime and deployment confidence.
Distributed Infrastructure: Operate and optimize deployments across multiple regions, clusters, and heterogeneous workloads.
Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with application, platform, and infrastructure engineers to align deployment best practices across the organization.
Leadership & Mentorship: Drive standards for deployment reliability, mentor peers on Kubernetes and GitOps practices, and raise the bar for automation across engineering.

Ideal Candidates Have / Are

Expert-Level Kubernetes: Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals (scheduling, networking, RBAC, storage, CRDs) and experience running multi-cluster production workloads.
Go Programming: Fluency in Go for building Kubernetes controllers, automation tools, and reliability mechanisms.
CI/CD Systems: Advanced knowledge of integrating Kubernetes deployment pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Buildkite, or similar CI/CD platforms.
Cloud-Native Observability: Proficiency with monitoring, logging, and tracing systems to ensure reliability at scale.
Distributed Systems Mindset: Strong background in building scalable, fault-tolerant, and cost-efficient systems across regions and clusters.
Security & Networking Expertise: Familiar with CNI plugins, ingress controllers, Istio/Linkerd, and modern Kubernetes security practices.
Leadership Qualities: Demonstrated experience setting deployment standards, mentoring engineers, and driving cross-team adoption of reliability patterns.

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 $270,400 to $318,100, determined by your location, skills, qualifications, experience and internal benchmarks. This range is specific to roles in the United States, compensation for candidates outside the USA will be dependent on the local market.

US Job Postings

This position may require access to technology and/or information subject to U.S. export control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). To comply with these requirements, candidates for this role must meet certain citizenship or residency criteria. Specifically, they must qualify as U.S. Persons for export control purposes (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. lawful permanent resident (Green Card holder), or a protected individual under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3) such as a refugee or asylee), or otherwise be eligible for an applicable export license.

Groq is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Groq complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. We do not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any protected characteristic.

Groq is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application or to participate in the hiring process, please contact us at talent@groq.com. This contact is for accommodation requests only, which will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

All offers of employment are contingent upon verification of the applicant’s identity and employment authorization in accordance with federal law.

Groq encourages people with criminal record histories to apply for employment, and values diverse experiences, including prior contact with the criminal legal system. To that end, Groq welcomes such applicants in accordance with the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles City Fair Chance Act Ordinance, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Act Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Act Ordinance. Philadelphia applicants can review information pertaining to Philadelphia’s Fair Criminal Record Screening Standards Ordinance here: https://www.phila.gov/documents/fair-chance-hiring-law-poster.

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