LiveKit
Senior Software Engineer, Agent Platform
Remote, U.S · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 556 days ago
Distributed SystemsGitAWSGCPDockerKubernetesSite Reliability EngineeringTemporalAgentic AISalesforceBGP/OSPF
About the role
- This is your chance to work on groundbreaking innovations in agentic computing, contributing to the platform that powers the next generation of voice and AI applications.
- If you're eager to dig deep into systems, take real ownership over a fast-growing product area, and ship features developers depend on - we want to hear from you.
Responsibilities
- Develop the core platform for hosting agents
- Build resilient systems to deploy agents across global data centers
- Create end-to-end tooling for seamless management of hosted agents
- Own significant portions of the platform end-to-end, from design through deployment and iteration
- Self-starter who can jump in, own portions of a project, and drive decisions
- LiveKit is building the infrastructure layer for the agentic era of computing.
Nice to have
- Experience running untrusted code in isolated environments (gVisor, Firecracker, or similar)
- Experience at companies offering serverless functions or container platforms (Fly.io http://Fly.io, Cloudflare, AWS Lambda, GCP)
- Background in OCI/container internals - speeding boot times, snapshotter optimizations, image layering
- Experience with software-defined networking, anycast, BGP, or VPC integration for serverless workloads
- Contribute to open source alongside world-class engineers
- LiveKit is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable law.
Skills
- Skilled in containerization platforms and capable of digging into low-level details to solve complex problems
- Experienced designing and maintaining production distributed systems
- obsess over crafting code that is fast, reliable, and practical for the problem
- are known as the go-to person for tackling tough technical problems
- work hard and can build and ship fast
- can clearly explain complex technical concepts to other engineers
- are a fast learner, frequently picking up new languages and tools
Compensation
- Competitive salary and equity package
Company info
- Our platform gives developers everything they need to build, test, deploy, scale, and observe AI agents in production.
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