Staff Software Engineer

Reposted 11 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in USA
Remote
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Semiconductor
The Role
The Staff Software Engineer will design and build APIs for high-performance AI inference, manage deployments, and ensure software quality through testing and monitoring.
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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.

Staff Software Engineer, Golang

Mission: Build the APIs and services that will enable over 1M developers to run incredibly fast inference workloads on GroqCloud.

Role Responsibilities & Outcomes:

  • Design & Build APIs: Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend systems and customer facing APIs that support our inference and console experiences.
  • Infrastructure Deployment: Provision and deploy services into our Kubernetes-based environment.
  • Testing and Validation: Develop and implement automated testing frameworks and test suites to ensure software quality and reliability. Write tests at all levels and scopes of Groq’s systems using best practices and pragmatic, scalable testing philosophy.
  • Monitoring and Observability: Ensure that we understand the performance and quality of our services running in production and can swiftly respond when needed. 
  • Cross Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with product, design, and other engineers to ship features from idea to production.

Ideal candidates have:

  • 6+ years of software development experience
  • 3+ years writing software in Go as your primary language
  • Passion for LLMs and knowledge of how to interact with them (constrained decoding, output safeguards, etc)
  • Strong understanding of API design principles and RESTful architectures
  • Familiarity with multi-region application deployment and associated challenges
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, PubSub/Kafka/Pulsar, and Stytch.
  • Experience with Bigquery, Honeycomb, Prometheus + Grafana
  • Experience building customer facing RESTful APIs
  • Familiarity with streaming architectures and real-time data processing building large data processing flows 
  • Experience shipping code to production daily

Logistical Requirements. You must be:

  • Authorized to work in the United States
  • Available to work US Pacific hours
  • For in-person roles, available to work from the office at least Tuesday/Thursday

Attributes of a Groqster:

  • Humility - Egos are checked at the door
  • Collaborative & Team Savvy - We make up the smartest person in the room, together
  • Growth & Giver Mindset - Learn it all versus know it all, we share knowledge generously
  • Curious & Innovative - Take a creative approach to projects, problems, and design
  • Passion, Grit, & Boldness - no limit thinking, fueling informed risk taking

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 $205,530 to $278,070, 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.

Groq is committed to working with qualified individuals with physical or mental disabilities. Applicants who would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or who need special assistance or a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process may contact us at:  [email protected].  This contact information is for accommodation requests only.  Evaluation of requests for reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

Top Skills

BigQuery
Go
Grafana
Honeycomb
Kafka
Kubernetes
Prometheus
Pubsub
Pulsar
Stytch
Terraform
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The Company
HQ: Mountain View, California
205 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2016

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.

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