Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

The role

You will design and evolve core control, data, and observability systems for LiveKit Cloud. You will implement resilient, region-spanning architectures and build libraries, protocols, and tooling.

What you will do

• Design and evolve the core control, data, and observability systems that power LiveKit Cloud
• Implement resilient, region-spanning architectures that degrade gracefully under partial failure
• Build libraries, protocols, and tooling that raise reliability and developer velocity across the org
• Diagnose and harden critical paths using metrics, tracing, testing, and real-world traffic insights
• Shape new platform capabilities across identity, scheduling, observability, and distributed state management

Required qualifications

• Experience designing and delivering distributed systems in production
• Ability to take ownership end-to-end - prototype, test, ship, monitor, and iterate
• Comfort with consensus, coordination, and the realities of distributed failure modes
• Ability to think in terms of data flow, state, performance, and correctness
• Ability to reduce complex systems into understandable components
• Value clear communication, practical engineering, and building systems others enjoy working with

Nice to have

• Go fluency
• Hands-on experience with pub/sub, RPC, or coordination systems (NATS, etcd, Raft, Paxos)
• Exposure to real-time or low-latency infrastructure
• Shipped observability tooling (tracing, metrics, at-scale logging)
• Did most of the work in school group projects

Benefits

• Opportunity to shape the brand of a fast-growing developer platform
• Collaboration with a small, senior team
• Competitive salary and equity package
• Health, dental, and vision benefits
• Flexible vacation policy

About the company

LiveKit provides network infrastructure that powers multimodal AI interfaces. Founded in 2021, it supports over 3 Billion calls annually and 100,000+ developers globally.