Staff Infrastructure Engineer, Engineering Infrastructure

Mission

Your mission is to deliver practical, high-impact solutions that enable Groq engineers to move fast and focus on innovation. You will design and implement systems that simplify complexity, remove bottlenecks, and accelerate progress across the organization. By emphasizing speed, reliability, and automation, you’ll help teams get things done quickly while maintaining the highest standards of quality and efficiency.

Responsibilities & Opportunities In This Role

• Accelerate build and release systems to reduce wait times, increase reliability, and integrate seamlessly with tools like GitHub, Buildkite, and Nix.
• Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines that deliver rapid, reliable feedback and enable frequent, high-quality releases across languages such as Haskell, C++, Rust, Go, and Python.
• Automate quality and security practices including linting, static analysis, dependency management, and secure delivery of software.
• Develop and support hardware-integrated test environments for Groq silicon, ensuring production-like reliability, scalability, and usability.
• Drive automation and self-service across the engineering lifecycle with modern infrastructure and tooling.
• Champion best practices and culture around speed, reliability, and continuous improvement in software delivery.
  
  

Ideal Candidates Have/are

• Strong background in software engineering with focus on infrastructure, build systems, and automation.
• Proven experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and other engineering infrastructure.
• Proficiency in Go and Python, with exposure to Haskell, C++, and Rust in large, fast-moving codebases.
• Hands-on expertise with GitHub, Buildkite, Nix, plus modern source control and dependency management practices.
• Experience collaborating across diverse teams (Compilers, Hardware, Cloud) to improve processes and accelerate delivery.
• Passion for developer productivity and testing, enabling teams to deliver high-quality software quickly and reliably.
• Experience with large monorepos is a strong asset, particularly in scaling tooling and workflows across diverse teams.
  
  

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
  
  

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 is determined by your skills, qualifications, experience and internal benchmarks.