livekit - Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
Requirements
• 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 • Go fluency — if you haven't written Go yet, you've been meaning to • Hands-on experience with pub/sub, RPC, or coordination systems (NATS, etcd, Raft, Paxos) • Exposure to real-time or low-latency infrastructure — you know what microseconds feel like • You've shipped observability tooling you'd actually want to use (tracing, metrics, at-scale logging) • In those school group projects, you did most of the work (:sigh:)
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 • Technologies include: Go, psrpc, gRPC, Raft, NATS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse
Benefits
• $135K – $300K • Offers Equity • As a globally distributed engineering team, our posted range covers differences across international markets and levels. Final compensation depends on your location, seniority, and technical depth evaluated throughout our process. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • Tell us about you and why you're excited to apply to this specific role at LiveKit • Tell us about a project you're proud of! • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. • Black or African American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran
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