LiveKit
Security Engineer
United States (Remote) · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 17 days ago
PythonGoAWSGCPAzureKubernetesSite Reliability EngineeringLLMsAgentic AICybersecuritySOC OperationsIncident ResponseComplianceSalesforceVoIP
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About the role
- Depending on your background, you will focus either on infrastructure security posture or vulnerability management & security operations.
- think like both a builder and a breaker, and understand security from first principles
- take an automation-first and pragmatic approach to risk mitigation
Responsibilities
- Map the security posture of our cloud and production infrastructure, find the gaps that could lead to customer data loss or infrastructure compromise, and close them in priority order.
- Build automation that removes manual security work and keeps pace with engineering growth.
- Build engineering-first triage and remediation workflows with engineering teams, and make the secure path the easy one.
- LiveKit is building the infrastructure layer for the agentic era of computing.
Requirements
- 5+ years in security engineering, infrastructure engineering or SRE, with a significant share of that focused on security.
- A pragmatic approach to risk: you can explain why a finding matters to the business and how fast it needs to be fixed.
Nice to have
- Experience with real-time media, networking or WebRTC systems.
- Experience in AI security, such as securing LLM applications or agent infrastructure.
- Incident response or application security experience.
- Experience supporting compliance audits.
- 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.
Compensation
- Competitive salary and equity package
Company info
- Founded in 2021, LiveKit powers voice and agentic AI applications for OpenAI, Salesforce, Spotify, Meta, and tens of thousands of other developers, collectively facilitating billions of calls each year.
- Our platform gives developers everything they need to build, test, deploy, scale, and observe AI agents in production.
- Our customers trust us with audio, video and data belonging to their own end users, so a security failure on our side puts their data and their business at risk.
- We are hiring Security Engineers to build the security foundations for that infrastructure.
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