# Staff 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: 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/am9icG9zdDpEDATfatNRDg_-QMgPHmZy?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/groq-staff-kubernetes-platform-engineer-infrastructure-groqmetal/

## About the role

GroqMetal is building the infrastructure platform that turns large-scale physical compute into a reliable, isolated, customer-consumable AI infrastructure. This is a hands-on Senior Staff role: you will write production software as part of a software engineering team. You will lead the design of a Kubernetes-based software platform focused on large-scale AI training and inference workloads. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Experienced software engineers first: Strong experience designing, implementing, testing, shipping, and maintaining production software
- Deep Kubernetes platform engineering experience: Experience with operators/controllers, CRDs, admission control, node lifecycle, cluster services, and production-grade platform design
- Strong distributed-systems expertise: Practical experience reasoning about CAP, consensus, leader election, eventual consistency, state reconciliation, fault domains, and recovery
- Experience developing infrastructure software: Experience working through a robust SDLC, including design review, automated testing, CI/CD, staged rollout, rollback, observability, and incident learning
- Comfort with ambiguity: Experience with inference platforms, accelerator/GPU infrastructure, device plugins, cloud infrastructure, or customer-facing platform products


Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/groq-staff-kubernetes-platform-engineer-infrastructure-groqmetal/