LiveKit

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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