# Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Networking (Groq Metal) 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: San Francisco, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $270K to $365K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-14
- Apply by: 2026-11-28
- Apply: https://jobs.gem.com/groq/am9icG9zdDofzpBiDIe34iyycGdoAvwR?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/groq-staff-infrastructure-engineer-networking-groq-metal/

## About the role

We're hiring a Sr Staff/Staff Infrastructure Engineer to own the bare-metal layer of our platform: how thousands of physical servers across multiple data centers become healthy, secure, tenant-assignable Kubernetes nodes — and stay that way. This role sits on the Platform Engineering team and is the technical lead for everything below the Kubernetes API: server provisioning, OS lifecycle, datacenter networking fabric, BMC / firmware management, and integration with modern DPUs. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years in production infrastructure, with at least 3 years owning bare-metal lifecycle at scale
- Strong in datacenter networking fundamentals: BGP, leaf/spine, MTU, congestion control, fabric debugging
- Production Kubernetes operations experience — cluster bring-up, CNI internals, fleet upgrades
- Comfort with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Helm) and GitOps
- Has been on-call for a fleet of physical machines and knows what that costs


Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/groq-staff-infrastructure-engineer-networking-groq-metal/