Groq
Staff / Sr. Staff Kubernetes Platform Engineer, Infrastructure (GroqMetal)
$270K–$402K
San Francisco, United States +2 · On-site · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, United States
New York, United States
Dallas, United States - Visa sponsorship
- Candidates must qualify as U.S. Persons for export-control purposes or be eligible for an applicable export license; non-U.S. postings require meeting relevant export-control eligibility criteria.
About the job
Designs and builds a hands-on Kubernetes platform that turns large-scale physical compute into reliable, customer-facing infrastructure for AI training and inference workloads.
What you'll do
- Design and build platform systems, including APIs, controllers, operators, reconciliation loops, and infrastructure abstractions.
- Write, review, test, debug, and operate production code while providing technical leadership.
- Apply distributed-systems principles and collaborate across teams to deliver stable, production-grade Kubernetes services for customers.
What they ask for
- Strong experience designing, implementing, testing, shipping, and maintaining production software.
- Deep Kubernetes platform engineering experience, including operators/controllers, CRDs, admission control, node lifecycle, cluster services, and production-grade platform design.
- Strong practical expertise in distributed systems, including consistency, consensus, failure handling, and recovery.
- Experience with a robust software development lifecycle, including design review, automated testing, CI/CD, staged rollout, rollback, observability, and incident learning.
Nice to have
- Experience delivering Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, or infrastructure control planes as a commercially critical or externally consumed product.
- Hands-on coding-agent experience; experience with hyperscalers or neoclouds, AI workloads, or accelerator infrastructure.
Pay
Staff: $270,400 - $365,000 USD total cash salary (inclusive of potential bonus value); Sr. Staff: $341,400 - $401,600 USD total cash salary (inclusive of potential bonus value)
Tools
Kubernetes, CRDs, CI/CD, Codex, Claude Code
AI focus
Builds Kubernetes infrastructure for large-scale AI training and inference; hands-on coding-agent experience is valued. The company may also use AI tools in recruiting.
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