Drimva

Groq

Staff / Sr. Staff Networking Platform Engineer, Infrastructure

$270K–$402K

Dallas, United States +2 · On-site · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2026

Location
Dallas, United States
San Francisco, United States
New York, United States
Visa sponsorship
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About the job

Own and develop GroqMetal’s multitenant networking platform, from Kubernetes and data-center fabrics to external connectivity, with responsibility for automation, security, and production reliability.

What you'll do

  • Build Kubernetes-native automation and lifecycle management for tenant and node networks, including safe recovery and isolation checks.
  • Manage routing, fabric integration, addressing, and Kubernetes networking across management, tenant, GPU, and external networks.
  • Own network security, configuration standards, telemetry, troubleshooting, and incident remediation.

What they ask for

  • Deep production networking expertise, including TCP/IP, BGP, routing policy, peering, ECMP, segmentation, and interconnects.
  • Experience with bare-metal data-center networking, including leaf-spine fabrics, underlay/overlay networks, and tenant separation.
  • Strong Kubernetes and Linux networking experience, including CNI behavior, network policy, and cluster-to-physical-network integration.
  • Built Kubernetes controllers, operators, and custom resources in Go; experience with network automation and GitOps.

Nice to have

  • Experience delivering multitenant infrastructure or managed Kubernetes networking products.
  • Fabric management/IPAM experience or GPU cluster networking expertise, including InfiniBand, RoCE, and NVIDIA GPU infrastructure.

Pay

$270,400 - $365,800 (USD total cash salary, Staff); $341,400 - $401,600 (USD total cash salary, Sr. Staff)

Tools

Kubernetes, Go, Cilium, BGP, VLANs, EVPN/VXLAN, NetBox, Netris

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)