At Groq. We believe in an AI economy powered by human agency. We envision a world where AI is accessible to all, a world that demands processing power that is better, faster, and more affordable than is available today. AI applications are currently constrained by the limitations of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), a technology originally developed for the gaming market and soon to become the weakest link in the AI economy.

Enter Groq's LPU™ Inference Engine. Specifically engineered for the demands of large language models (LLMs), the Language Processing Unit outpaces the GPU in speed, power, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. The quickest way to understand the opportunity is to watch the following talk – groq.link/scspdemo.

Why join Groq? AI will change humanity forever, and we believe preservation of human agency and self determination is only possible if AI is made affordably and universally accessible. Groq’s LPUs will power AI from an early stage, and you will get to leave your fingerprint on civilization.

Principal Site Reliability Engineer

Mission: Your mission is to ensure the reliability of our APIs as customers route their AI workloads through Groq’s insanely fast, purpose-built hardware and software systems, ensuring seamless performance and exceptional service delivery.

Responsibilities & opportunities in this role:

Enhance system reliability: Refine our operational practices to increase uptime and resilience, notably reducing downtime and securing consistent performance across multiple regions.
System troubleshooting: Lead investigations to determine root causes of system failures and develop scripts to repair and automate the upkeep of infrastructure components.
Observability enhancement: Implement comprehensive monitoring (tracing, metrics, logging, alerting) to swiftly pinpoint, diagnose, and resolve system issues.
Smart orchestration: Collaborate closely with teams to facilitate their applications’ transition to Kubernetes, ensuring seamless migrations and optimal performance, while enhancing automated health checks for fully autonomous scheduling.
Resilient systems: Develop tools and strategies to enhance application robustness against network and dependency issues.
Improved performance: At Groq, every nanosecond counts. Aid teams in optimizing consistent system responsiveness to enhance customer interactions.
Trustworthy system data: Assist and enable engineering teams to have a clear understanding of how the infrastructure and their systems are performing.
Self-healing systems: Write tooling (Go, Rust, C++, Python) to assist our infrastructure to self-diagnose and self-heal. This could be measuring fiber optic latency or on-chip sensors one day, writing Kubernetes Daemonsets/CRDs the next, then working in Go-based HTTP systems.
Security and compliance: Uphold the highest security standards to safeguard customer data, aligning with stringent compliance protocols.
Efficient incident response: Manage critical system incidents as a first responder, ensuring swift resolution and comprehensive post-incident analyses with implemented remediations.

Ideal candidates have/are:

Proven SRE experience: Extensive background in managing high-availability systems across multiple cloud or data center environments.
Technical versatility: Proficiency in modern programming languages with a readiness to engage daily with Golang, Rust, Python, C++, Terraform, Flux.
Systems expertise: Advanced understanding of Linux, Kubernetes, Cilium (eBPF), Prometheus, PostgreSQL, BigQuery.
Network savvy: Robust knowledge in networking, high-performance computing, and observability.
Orchestration mastery: Experienced in developing software that orchestrates vast and complex systems and infrastructures.
CI/CD obsessed: Strong familiarity with Git and modern GitOps based software development lifecycle practices.
Leadership and collaboration: Demonstrated ability to lead initiatives and collaborate effectively with dispersed teams to achieve rapid results.
Analytically minded: Skilled in dissecting and resolving multifaceted system and hardware issues.
Passion for performance: A passion for obsessing about performance and highly reliable software and hardware.

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 $165,200 to $332,300, determined by your skills, qualifications, experience and internal benchmarks.

Location: Groq is a geo-agnostic company, meaning you work where you are. Exceptional candidates will thrive in asynchronous partnerships and remote collaboration methods. Some roles may require being located near 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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Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Groq