About Groq
Groq delivers fast, efficient AI inference. Our LPU-based system powers GroqCloud™, giving businesses and developers the speed and scale they need. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, we are on a mission to make high performance AI compute more accessible and affordable. When real-time AI is within reach, anything is possible. Build fast.
Senior Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Developer Experience
Mission: Your mission is to lead the development and implementation of scalable, efficient, and automated systems that support Groq’s software engineering efforts. You will ensure that our build, test, and release processes enable rapid iteration and high-quality software delivery, driving continuous improvement and operational excellence across the organization.
The team: This role sits on our Engineering Infrastructure team which is responsible for software and practices that enable rapid, secure, modern software delivery. This teams scope is: software build, test, and release and in the critical path for multiple teams.
Responsibilities & opportunities in this role:
- Accelerate Build Systems: Drive the evolution of our build systems, reducing wait times, increasing reliability, and ensuring seamless integration with existing tools like GitLab/GitHub, Buildkite and Nix.
- Optimize CI/CD Pipelines: Lead the design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines that provide rapid, reliable feedback on code changes, enabling teams to release high-quality software frequently and confidently.
- Enhance Code Quality: Implement and automate advanced code quality tools, including linting, automated code review, and static analysis, to ensure that high coding standards are consistently met across diverse languages like Haskell, C++, Rust, Go and Python.
- Streamline Dependency Management: Drive initiatives to automate the maintenance and updating of software dependencies, minimizing technical debt and ensuring the security and integrity of our codebase.
- Elevate Source Control Practices: Ensure that source control systems are optimized for ease of use, discoverability, and automation, enabling efficient collaboration across multiple engineering teams.
- Support Hardware-Integrated Testing: Lead the development and management of production-like test environments for Groq hardware, ensuring these environments are highly available, easy to use, and closely aligned with production deployment scenarios.
Ideal candidates have/are:
- Extensive experience in software engineering with a focus on infrastructure, build systems, and automation.
- Proven leadership in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and other engineering infrastructure.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Go and Python, with experience in infrastructure and automation.
- Familiarity with GitLab/GitHub and a strong understanding of modern software development practices.
- Experience working with and supporting teams that develop in Haskell, C++, Rust, Go and Python.
- Ability to drive change and improve engineering processes across a diverse set of teams, from Compilers to Hardware and Cloud.
- A passion for enabling engineering teams to deliver high-quality software faster and more reliably, with a strong focus on testing and continual improvement.
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!
Compensation: At Groq, a competitive base salary is part of our comprehensive compensation package, which includes equity and benefits. For this role, the base salary range is $156,000 - $272,000 CAD, determined by your skills, qualifications, experience and internal benchmarks.
Location: Some roles may require being located near or on our primary sites, as indicated in the job description.
At Groq: Our goal is to hire and promote an exceptional workforce as diverse as the global populations we serve. Groq is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, inclusion, and belonging in all aspects of our organization. We value and celebrate diversity in thought, beliefs, talent, expression, and backgrounds. We know that our individual differences make us better.
Groq is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. We also take affirmative action to offer employment opportunities to minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans.
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What We Do
Groq is an AI solutions company delivering ultra-low latency AI inference with the world's first Language Processing Unit™. With turnkey generalized software and a deterministic Tensor Streaming architecture, Groq offers a synchronous ecosystem built for ultra-fast inference at scale. Groq solutions maximize human capital and innovative technology performance, having been proven to reduce developer complexity and accelerate time-to-production and ROI. Designed, engineered, and manufactured completely in North America, Groq offers domestically-based and scalable supply that is available now, capable of delivering 390 racks in 6-12 months and ramped lead times of 6-12 weeks. Learn more at groq.com.
