3 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior / Staff+
H1B Sponsor
Base Salary
$120k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve the core control, data, and observability systems powering LiveKit Cloud.
- Implement resilient, region-spanning architectures that degrade gracefully under partial failure.
- Build libraries, protocols, and tooling that improve reliability and developer velocity.
- Diagnose and harden critical paths using metrics, tracing, testing, and real-world traffic insights.
- Shape platform capabilities across identity, scheduling, observability, and distributed state management.
Requirements
- Experience designing and delivering distributed systems in production.
- End-to-end ownership of prototyping, testing, shipping, monitoring, and iteration.
- Comfort with consensus, coordination, and distributed failure modes.
- Strong understanding of data flow, state, performance, and correctness.
- Ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly and communicate effectively.
- Go fluency is preferred, though prior Go experience is not required.
- Hands-on experience with pub/sub, RPC, or coordination systems such as NATS, etcd, Raft, or Paxos is preferred.
- Experience with real-time or low-latency infrastructure is preferred.
- Experience shipping observability tooling, including tracing, metrics, or at-scale logging, is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Health, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible vacation policy
- Opportunity to work with a small, senior team on a fast-growing developer platform
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About LiveKit
LiveKit offers open source frameworks and a cloud platform for building voice, video, and physical AI agents.