LiveKit

Staff Security Engineer

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27 days ago
Apopka, FL, USAStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$135k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own security across applications, services, infrastructure, and developer workflows.
  • Identify, assess, and mitigate risks in infrastructure and application codebases.
  • Lead secure code reviews, architecture discussions, and threat modeling sessions.
  • Build tooling and automation to prevent security issues before production.
  • Harden authentication and access control across internal and external surfaces.
  • Partner with engineering teams to design secure-by-default APIs, workflows, and deployments.
  • Investigate vulnerabilities, respond to security incidents, and manage disclosure processes.
  • Document and evangelize security best practices across the organization.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience as a software engineer with a strong interest in security engineering.
  • Led or heavily contributed to security engineering efforts across applications, infrastructure, or both.
  • Experience with threat modeling, secure coding practices, and vulnerability management.
  • Experience with CI/CD systems, cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP, and containerized environments.
  • Experience responding to security incidents, leading postmortems, or driving remediation efforts.
  • Strong ability to analyze weaknesses in business logic, configuration, and code.
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to translate security concerns into engineering action.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity package.
  • Health, dental, and vision benefits.
  • Flexible vacation policy.
  • Opportunity to build impactful infrastructure for the agentic era and contribute to open source.
  • Equal opportunity employer with reasonable accommodation support during the application and interview process.
LiveKit

About LiveKit

51-200 employees

LiveKit builds open-source frameworks and a managed cloud platform for real-time voice, video, and AI agents used by software teams. Developers use it to build, deploy, scale, and observe agents, with products that include agent hosting and ultra-low-latency communications APIs. Founded in 2021 and privately held, LiveKit lists customers such as OpenAI, xAI, Salesforce, Coursera, and Spotify.

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