# Sr. Staff Platform Security Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure 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: Senior
- Location: New York, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $341K to $402K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-06
- Apply by: 2026-11-20
- Apply: https://jobs.gem.com/groq/am9icG9zdDq8Imv0hBUSw7YmAWesG3j8?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/groq-sr-staff-platform-security-engineer-cloud-infrastructure-3/

## About the role

Build and scale the security foundations that enable customers to run sensitive AI workloads with confidence on Groq's inference platform. You will set technical direction and build critical security capabilities across identity and access, Kubernetes, multi-tenant infrastructure, secrets, encryption, and key and certificate management. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Demonstrated experience setting technical direction and owning complex security architecture across multiple systems, teams, or infrastructure domains
- Deep experience with identity and access technologies such as OIDC, SAML, SCIM, RBAC, workload identity, short-lived credentials, and multi-factor authentication
- Deep experience designing security for multi-tenant systems and isolation across network, compute, storage, and control-plane boundaries
- Hands-on Kubernetes security expertise, including RBAC, admission control, service-account and workload identity, secrets and encryption, policy enforcement, and node security
- Strong understanding of secrets management, encryption, key management, certificate lifecycle, and secure credential management
- Strong software engineering skills in Go, Python, or similar languages, with experience designing, building, and operating production systems


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