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Senior Infrastructure Engineer
| Company | Groq |
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| Location | Palo Alto, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $132100 – $279800 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Experience with Linux / Kubernetes systems and comfort working in a terminal.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and Git-based workflows (e.g., Terraform, Flux, Kustomize).
- Ability to write and maintain basic tooling in Go, Python, or Bash.
- Understanding of networking fundamentals (IPAM, VLANs, DHCP, DNS).
- Working knowledge of storage concepts (block vs object, NFS, RAID, etc.).
- Strong sense of ownership and a willingness to dive into hardware, firmware, or low-level provisioning issues.
Responsibilities
- Support the provisioning and deployment of Kubernetes clusters on bare metal servers.
- Help build and maintain tooling for bare metal provisioning — including DHCP, DNS, PXE/iPXE/HTTPBoot, and Talos Linux Machine Configuration.
- Write and maintain scripts and services (Go, Python, Bash) to automate deployment workflows across new and existing sites.
- Partner with data center operations and networking teams to ensure hardware is correctly configured, connected, and ready for use.
- Manage infrastructure configuration using tools like Git, Flux, and Terraform.
- Contribute to system documentation, runbooks, and tooling that makes our infrastructure reliable and repeatable.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience provisioning physical machines in a data center environment.
- Exposure to Talos Linux, Kubernetes bootstrapping, or Kubernetes platform engineering.
- Previous collaboration with facilities, hardware, or network teams in an operational role.
