Used Tools & Technologies
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Required Skills & Competences ?
Security @ 2 Go @ 3 Grafana @ 3 Jenkins @ 6 Kubernetes @ 3 Prometheus @ 3 VictoriaMetrics @ 3 GitHub @ 6 GitHub Actions @ 6 CI/CD @ 6 ArgoCD @ 3 Distributed Systems @ 6 Leadership @ 3 Mentoring @ 3 Networking @ 6 OpenTelemetry @ 3Details
Join the team that builds and operates Groq’s deployment systems—empowering engineering teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure workloads across large-scale Kubernetes environments. Your work will enable deterministic, automated, and observable deployments across multiple regions and clusters, ensuring Groq remains the fastest inference provider on earth.
Responsibilities
- Deployment engineering: design, implement, and optimize large-scale multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments supporting mission-critical workloads.
- Build custom Kubernetes controllers and operators in Go to support continuous deployment strategies for model instances and production workloads.
- Implement advanced deployment patterns (blue/green, canary, progressive delivery) to ensure safe and reliable production rollouts.
- Drive GitOps practices using (and building on top of) Flux (preferred) or ArgoCD to ensure reproducible, declarative, and auditable deployments.
- Inject observability into every deployment using Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry for metrics, logging, and tracing.
- Architect automated rollback, health checks, and failover mechanisms to maximize uptime and deployment confidence.
- Operate and optimize deployments across multiple regions, clusters, and heterogeneous workloads.
- Partner with application, platform, and infrastructure engineers to align deployment best practices across the organization.
- Provide leadership and mentorship: drive standards for deployment reliability and mentor peers on Kubernetes and GitOps practices.
Requirements / Ideal Candidate
- Expert-level Kubernetes: deep understanding of Kubernetes internals (scheduling, networking, RBAC, storage, CRDs) and experience running multi-cluster production workloads.
- Fluency in Go for building Kubernetes controllers, automation tools, and reliability mechanisms.
- Advanced CI/CD systems knowledge and experience integrating Kubernetes deployment pipelines with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Buildkite, or similar platforms.
- Proficiency with cloud-native observability: Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry for metrics, logging, and tracing.
- Strong distributed systems mindset: experience building scalable, fault-tolerant, and cost-efficient systems across regions and clusters.
- Security and networking expertise: familiarity with CNI plugins, ingress controllers, Istio/Linkerd, and modern Kubernetes security practices.
- Demonstrated leadership: experience setting deployment standards, mentoring engineers, and driving cross-team adoption of reliability patterns.
Compensation
- Base salary range (United States): $270,400 to $318,100, determined by location, skills, qualifications, experience, and internal benchmarks. This range is specific to roles in the United States; compensation for candidates outside the USA will depend on the local market.
- Total compensation may include equity and benefits in addition to base salary.
US Job Postings / Export Control
This position may require access to technology and/or information subject to U.S. export control laws and regulations (including the EAR). Candidates must qualify as U.S. Persons for export control purposes (U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual) or otherwise be eligible for an applicable export license.
Inclusion & Accommodations
Groq is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to creating an inclusive environment. Reasonable accommodations are available for qualified individuals with disabilities. For accommodation requests, contact [email protected] (accommodation requests only).