LiveKit
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Remote, U.S · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 127 days ago
Distributed SystemsGitKubernetesSite Reliability EngineeringAgentic AISalesforceLoad Balancing
About the role
- LiveKit is at 3B+ calls per year, and the reliability surface area is growing faster than team capacity.
- There is still meaningful reliability debt to work through when you join.
Responsibilities
- Build and extend common tooling so product teams can self-service reliability without Infra as a bottleneck
- Track record of building or operating production distributed systems at scale
- LiveKit is building the infrastructure layer for the agentic era of computing.
Nice to have
- Experience with CockroachDB, NATS, or similar distributed systems
- Google SRE or equivalent high-scale background
- Nebula, WireGuard, or similar overlay networking experience
- Open source contributions, especially on infra or developer tools
- Experience in realtime, audio/video, or low-latency systems
- 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
- The goal is to minimize #3 through #1 and #2.
- 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
- LiveKit is at 3B+ calls per year, and the reliability surface area is growing faster than team capacity.
Company info
- Our platform gives developers everything they need to build, test, deploy, scale, and observe AI agents in production.
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