LiveKit
Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
Remote work allowed only within certain countries or regions.
North America, Europe
Employer listed it 4 months ago · Added yesterday
Been open since 4 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
$135,000–$300,000
Location
North America, Europe
Timezone
US East
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Software
Published by the employer
Remote flexibility
Region Restricted
Remote work is allowed, but only for candidates based in North America, Europe.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "North America, APJ, EMEA, Remote"
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- Timezone overlap with the listed area is often expected
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About the role
About LiveKit
LiveKit is revolutionizing the AI landscape by providing the essential network infrastructure that powers multimodal AI interfaces, enabling seamless audio and visual interactions. Founded in 2021, LiveKit has rapidly grown to support over 3 Billion calls annually, 100,000+ developers globally, and industry giants like OpenAI, Character AI, Spotify, and Meta.
About This Role
We're looking for a Senior Engineer to work across some of the most technically demanding parts of LiveKit's platform — core services, telephony, and observability. At LiveKit, the infrastructure is the product — you're not building the layer underneath, you are the layer.
You'll work on problems where latency, availability, and operational simplicity are critical, and where the right answer often requires careful tradeoffs and outside-the-box thinking. While distributed systems experience is valuable, we care just as much about strong programming fundamentals, sound judgment, and the ability to learn fast. The team is small. Your decisions ship directly into production.
You'll thrive as a Distributed Systems Engineer if you:
obsess with crafting code that is fast, reliable and practical for the problem
are known as the go-to person for tackling tough technical problems
work hard and can build and ship fast
can clearly explain complex technical concepts to others
are a fast learner, frequently picking up new languages and tools
The best way to impress us is with thoughtful Issues and/or PRs on our Github repos 😊
What You'll Do
Design and evolve the core control, data, and observability systems that power LiveKit Cloud
Implement resilient, region-spanning architectures that degrade gracefully under partial failure
Build libraries, protocols, and tooling that raise reliability and developer velocity across the org
Diagnose and harden critical paths using metrics, tracing, testing, and real-world traffic insights
Shape new platform capabilities across identity, scheduling, observability, and distributed state management
Technologies include: Go, psrpc, gRPC, Raft, NATS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse
Who You Are
You have experience designing and delivering distributed systems in production
You take ownership end-to-end - prototype, test, ship, monitor, and iterate
You're comfortable with consensus, coordination, and the realities of distributed failure modes
You think in terms of data flow, state, performance, and correctness, and you can reduce complex systems into understandable components
Requirements
- ·You take ownership end-to-end - prototype, test, ship, monitor, and iterate
- ·You're comfortable with consensus, coordination, and the realities of distributed failure modes
- ·You think in terms of data flow, state, performance, and correctness, and you can reduce complex systems into understandable components
- ·You value clear communication, practical engineering, and building systems that others enjoy working with
- ·Go fluency — if you haven't written Go yet, you've been meaning to
Benefits
- ·The opportunity to shape the brand of a fast-growing developer platform
- ·Collaboration with a small, senior team that deeply values craft and creativity
- ·Competitive salary and equity package
- ·Health, dental, and vision benefits
- ·Flexible vacation policy
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, region restricted, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at LiveKit, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (US East).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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