Staff Software Engineer, Golang

Company: Rollbar, Inc.
Location: Palo Alto
Posted on: May 3, 2025

Job Description:

At Groq, we believe in an AI economy powered by human agency. We envision a world where AI is accessible to all, demanding 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 AI Inference Technology. Specifically engineered for the demands of large language models (LLMs), the Language Processing Unit outpaces the GPU in speed, power, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.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.Position: Staff Software Engineer, GolangMission: Build the APIs and services that will enable over 1M developers to run incredibly fast inference workloads on GroqCloud.Role Responsibilities & Outcomes:

• Design & Build APIs: Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend systems and customer-facing APIs that support our inference and console experiences.
• Infrastructure Deployment: Provision and deploy services into our Kubernetes-based environment.
• Testing and Validation: Develop and implement automated testing frameworks and test suites to ensure software quality and reliability. Write tests at all levels and scopes of Groq's systems using best practices and pragmatic, scalable testing philosophy.
• Monitoring and Observability: Ensure that we understand the performance and quality of our services running in production and can swiftly respond when needed.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with product, design, and other engineers to ship features from idea to production.Ideal candidates have:
• 6+ years of software development experience
• 3+ years writing software in Go as your primary language
• Passion for LLMs and knowledge of how to interact with them (constrained decoding, output safeguards, etc)
• Strong understanding of API design principles and RESTful architectures
• Familiarity with multi-region application deployment and associated challenges
• Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, PubSub/Kafka/Pulsar, and Stytch
• Experience with Bigquery, Honeycomb, Prometheus + Grafana
• Experience building customer-facing RESTful APIs
• Familiarity with streaming architectures and real-time data processing building large data processing flows
• Experience shipping code to production dailyLogistical Requirements:You must be:

• Authorized to work in the United States
• Available to work US Pacific hours
• For in-person roles, available to work from the office at least Tuesday/ThursdayAttributes 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 takingCompensation: 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 $205,530 to $278,070, 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.
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