# Kubernetes Platform Engineer, Infrastructure (GroqMetal) at Groq

- Company: Groq
- What the company does: Groq is the premier neocloud for fast inference. One fully integrated platform for infrastructure, inference, and control. Millions of developers run trillions of tokens on Groq every week. Backed by Purple Arch Ventures.
- Company website: https://groq.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $185K to $303K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-07
- Apply by: 2026-11-21
- Apply: https://jobs.gem.com/groq/am9icG9zdDpeSFj39G-D5ni7LgaNHkhd?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/groq-cloud-platform-software-engineer/

## About the role

GroqMetal is building the infrastructure platform that turns large-scale physical compute into a reliable, isolated, customer-consumable product. As a Kubernetes Platform Engineer, you will build and operate production software within the GroqMetal platform, helping deliver Kubernetes as a commercial product for customers running large-scale AI training and inference workloads. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Software engineers first: Experience designing, implementing, testing, shipping, and maintaining production software
- Production infrastructure experience: Experience operating software in production and debugging problems across application, Kubernetes, networking, compute, and infrastructure layers
- Solid distributed-systems fundamentals: An understanding of failure handling, retries, idempotency, consistency, reconciliation, availability, and recovery, with an interest in developing deeper expertise
- Experience with disciplined software development: Comfortable with code review, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, deployment, and production operations
- Product-minded infrastructure engineers: Experience building Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, or platform capabilities consumed by customers is highly valued, but not required
- Hands-on experience with modern development tools: Experience using coding agents such as Codex, Claude Code, or similar tools in substantive engineering work is valued


Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/groq-cloud-platform-software-engineer/