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Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

LiveKit· R&D
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Remote$135k - $300kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Senior Engineer to work on core services, telephony, and observability within LiveKit’s distributed platform, focusing on latency, availability, and operational simplicity. Ship directly to production with a small, senior team.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Qualifications

  • 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
  • You value clear communication, practical engineering, and building systems that others enjoy working with

Skills

Required:GopsrpcgRPCKubernetesPrometheus
Nice to have:RaftNATSOpenTelemetryClickHouse

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity package
  • Health, dental, and vision benefits
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • The opportunity to shape the brand of a fast-growing developer platform
  • Collaboration with a small, senior team that deeply values craft and creativity
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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