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Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

LiveKit· R&D
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Remote$135k - $300k + equityFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Staff Engineer role focusing on core services, telephony, and observability for LiveKit Cloud with emphasis on latency, availability, and operational simplicity in a globally distributed engineering 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

  • Experience designing and delivering distributed systems in production
  • Take ownership end-to-end - prototype, test, ship, monitor, and iterate
  • Comfort with consensus, coordination, and distributed failure modes
  • Think in terms of data flow, state, performance, and correctness; reduce complex systems into understandable components
  • Value clear communication, practical engineering, and building systems that others enjoy working with

Skills

Required:Distributed systems designEnd-to-end ownership

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision benefits
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Competitive salary and equity package
  • 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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Open source agent framework and cloud platform for apps that see, hear, and speak.

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