AI Storage Deployment & Reliability Engineer

Mission:

Groq is building high-performance AI infrastructure designed to make inference fast, predictable, and scalable. Our Network Engineering & Datacenter teams design and operate the systems that provide the compute, storage, and networking capabilities behind Groq's rapidly growing AI infrastructure.

We are looking for a Storage Engineer, Deployment & Support to deploy, validate, and operate the storage infrastructure behind Groq's global AI infrastructure. As a Storage Engineer, Deployment & Support, you will take approved storage designs from implementation planning through production deployment and operational handoff. You will own storage system bring-up, configuration, validation, performance acceptance, troubleshooting, expansion, upgrades, and ongoing operational health across large-scale AI/HPC environments.

This role owns the underlying storage infrastructure lifecycle and partners closely with Platform Engineering to ensure storage capabilities are reliable, production-ready, and consumable. The role requires strong storage and networking fundamentals, structured troubleshooting, performance analysis, and the ability to drive deployments and operational work across multiple teams and vendors.

• Deploy and validate storage infrastructure across new and existing Groq datacenters, including high-performance storage systems supporting AI/HPC workloads.
• Configure and bring up storage systems against approved designs and implementation standards, including cluster initialization, storage nodes, interfaces, protocols, and supporting infrastructure.
• Drive storage deployment execution end-to-end, directing and coordinating on-site datacenter technicians and vendors through physical rack/stack, cabling, and installation while owning configuration, validation, troubleshooting, performance acceptance, and production handoff.
• Develop and maintain implementation procedures, validation plans, deployment checklists, system inventories, as-built documentation, and operational runbooks.
• Perform storage acceptance and performance validation, including throughput, IOPS, latency, capacity, data distribution, cluster health, and recovery behavior.
• Monitor and maintain storage health, capacity, availability, and performance, identifying and resolving issues before they impact production workloads.
• Troubleshoot storage and hardware failures across storage nodes, drives, network paths, protocols, and supporting infrastructure, and perform root cause analysis for deployment and production issues.
• Execute and coordinate storage expansions, upgrades, hardware refreshes, and other lifecycle activities while minimizing production impact.
• Manage hardware readiness for deployments and expansions, including rack/stack coordination, inventory and asset record updates, RMA coordination, spares, and vendor shipments.
• Coordinate deployment audits and execute established QA/QC processes to ensure storage infrastructure meets Groq standards.
• Partner closely with storage design, network, compute and platform teams to identify and resolve blockers throughout deployment and operations.
• Provide operational support during and after deployments, including maintenance activities, incidents, remediation, break-fix events, and vendor escalation when required.
• Develop tools and scripts that improve storage deployment, configuration, validation, testing, health checks, and repeatable operational workflows.
• Capture lessons-learned from deployments and incidents and contribute to global implementation standards and deployment playbooks.

• 4+ years of experience in storage engineering, systems engineering, network engineering, datacenter operations, or related infrastructure roles, with hands-on experience deploying, operating, or troubleshooting storage systems.
• Strong hands-on experience operating and troubleshooting large-scale distributed or high-performance storage environments.
• Experience with modern storage platforms and technologies such as VAST, WEKA, DDN, Lustre, Ceph, or comparable distributed storage solutions.
• Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills in production environments.
• Strong understanding of storage protocols and data paths, including NFS, NFS over RDMA, NVMe-oF, and high-throughput Ethernet or Infini Band connectivity.
• Strong understanding of storage performance concepts, including throughput, IOPS, latency, capacity, and utilization.
• Understanding of RDMA, RoCE,…