LiveKit

Staff Security Engineer

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1 year ago
Remote, United States or Remote, CanadaStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$150k - $250k/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 automations to prevent security issues before production.
  • Harden authentication and access control across internal and external surfaces.
  • Partner with engineers to design secure-by-default APIs, workflows, and deployments.
  • Investigate vulnerabilities, respond to security incidents, and manage disclosure processes.
  • Stay current with security research, tooling, and threats and apply that knowledge.

Requirements

  • At least six years of experience as a software engineer with an 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.
  • Ability to analyze weaknesses in business logic, configuration, and code.
  • Experience responding to security incidents, leading postmortems, or driving remediation efforts.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, documentation, and security advocacy skills.
  • Bonus: security reviews of WebRTC, media pipelines, or real-time systems.
  • Bonus: contributions to open-source security tooling or research.
  • Bonus: hands-on experience with static and dynamic analysis tools, fuzzing, or sandboxing.
  • Bonus: experience building with LiveKit.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity package.
  • Health, dental, and vision benefits.
  • Flexible vacations.
  • Remote-friendly work environment with equipment provided.
LiveKit

About LiveKit

51-200 employees

LiveKit offers open source frameworks and a cloud platform for building voice, video, and physical AI agents.