Staff Software Engineer, Streaming Systems
Groq
Full-time
Remote friendly (Palo Alto, California, United States)
Worldwide
$245,800 - $289,200 USD yearly
Staff Software Engineer, Streaming Systems
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.
Location: If you're located near one of our offices in Palo Alto, California or Toronto, Canada, you might be asked to work hybrid.
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.
Why Join Us
- Purposeful Hiring: You’re not here by accident, and neither is anyone else. Every teammate is handpicked with intention because who we build with matters.
- Builders Wanted: You’re not just riding the rocket ship, you’re building it. Your work directly shapes the trajectory of our company.
- Mission-Driven Work: We’re here to make a real impact. Our mission fuels everything we do.
- Tackling Hard Problems: If easy isn’t your thing, you’re in the right place. We solve some of the most complex and exciting challenges in our space.
- Excellence Is The Standard: High performance isn’t just encouraged, it’s the baseline. And it’s contagious.
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!
Compensation:
USA
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.
INTERNATIONAL
Compensation: At Groq, a competitive base salary is part of our comprehensive compensation package, which includes equity and benefits. For this role, salary range is determined by your location, skills, qualifications, experience and internal benchmarks. Compensation for candidates outside the USA will be dependent on the local market.