Groq
Kubernetes Platform Engineer, Infrastructure (GroqMetal)
$185K–$302K
Dallas, United States +2 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Location
- Dallas, United States
San Francisco, United States
New York, United States - Visa sponsorship
- Candidates must meet export-control eligibility criteria: qualify as a U.S. Person or be eligible for an applicable export license for U.S. postings; non-U.S. postings require meeting all relevant export-control eligibility criteria.
About the job
Build and operate production Kubernetes platform capabilities for GroqMetal, a customer-facing infrastructure platform supporting large-scale AI training and inference workloads.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain Kubernetes APIs, controllers, operators, automation, and platform services.
- Own platform components end to end, from design and testing through deployment, operations, and improvement.
- Improve reliability, observability, performance, and scalability, and diagnose production issues with partner teams.
What they ask for
- Production software engineering experience, including designing, testing, shipping, and maintaining software.
- Hands-on experience building or operating Kubernetes-based systems.
- Experience operating production software and debugging across application, Kubernetes, networking, compute, and infrastructure layers.
- Understanding of distributed-systems concepts such as failure handling, retries, idempotency, consistency, and recovery.
Nice to have
- Customer-facing Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, or platform engineering experience.
- Experience with coding agents such as Codex or Claude Code, or with hyperscalers, neoclouds, GPUs, accelerator infrastructure, or AI workloads.
Pay
$184,800 - $250,000 (total cash salary, Engineer); $223,600 - $302,500 (total cash salary, Sr. Engineer)
Tools
Kubernetes, Codex, Claude Code
AI focus
Build and operate Kubernetes infrastructure for customer AI training and inference workloads.
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