Mission

Design and build the real-time data infrastructure that powers GroqCloud’s global revenue engine, processing hundreds of billions of events each day, sustaining millions of writes per second, and enabling a multi-billion-dollar business to operate in real time. Drive the intelligence layer that fuels global billing, analytics, and real-time business operations at worldwide scale.

Responsibilities & Opportunities In This Role

Architect high-performance data pipelines to ingest, process, and transform millions of structured and semi-structured events daily.
Build distributed, fault-tolerant frameworks for streaming data from diverse sources.
Create data services and APIs that make usage and billing data easily accessible across the platform.
Develop lightweight tools and dashboards to monitor and visualize data ingestion, throughput, and system health.

Ideal Candidates Have/are

Strong background in real-time data processing, distributed systems, and analytics infrastructure.
Hands-on experience with streaming technologies such as Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, or Redpanda and real-time analytics databases such as Clickhouse, Druid, or Pinot.
Deep understanding of serialization, buffering, and data flow optimization in high-throughput systems.

Bonus Points

Experience deploying and managing workloads on Kubernetes.
A passion for systems performance, profiling, and low-latency optimization.
Familiarity with gRPC and RESTful API design.

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 range is $245,800 to $289,200, determined by your location, skills, qualifications, experience and internal benchmarks. This range is specific to roles in the United States, compensation for candidates outside the USA will be dependent on the local market.

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