Job Description

About Groq
Groq delivers fast, efficient AI inference. Our LPU-based system powers GroqCloud(TM), giving businesses and developers the speed and scale they need. From our Bay Area roots to our growing global presence, 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 Infrastructure Engineer, Engineering Infrastructure
Location: Toronto
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.
The team:
This role is part of Groq's Engineering Infrastructure team, the backbone of our software delivery ecosystem. We design, build, and maintain the systems and practices that enable rapid, secure, and modern development at scale. Our scope spans the entire build, test, and release lifecycle, placing us directly in the critical path for multiple engineering teams. By ensuring reliability, speed, and security across these pipelines, we empower Groq engineers to focus on innovation while delivering software with confidence 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.

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

Skills Required