LiveKit · 1 month ago
Distributed Systems Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$120K/yr - $250K/yrLiveKit is revolutionizing the AI landscape by providing essential network infrastructure for multimodal AI interfaces. The role involves designing and implementing core elements of LiveKit's cloud platform, focusing on building resilient systems and improving operational simplicity.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud InfrastructureInformation TechnologyReal Time
Responsibilities
Design and build 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
Qualification
Required
Experience building and operating critical production services
Ownership from design through implementation, deployment, and iteration
Ability to learn quickly and not intimidated by unfamiliar problem domains
Clear thinking about data flow, state, performance, and failure modes
Ability to reduce complex systems into understandable components
Comfortable operating with incomplete information and evolving requirements
Value clear communication, practical engineering, and building systems that others enjoy working with
Preferred
Experience with distributed systems
Strong programming fundamentals
Sound judgment
Ability to approach problems from first principles
Experience with technologies including Go, psrpc, gRPC, NATS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity package
Health, dental, and vision benefits
Flexible vacation policy
Company
LiveKit
LiveKit provides a cloud platform that enables developers to build, deploy, and manage real-time communication and AI-driven applications.
Founded in 2021
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (3)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$181.3MKey Investors
Index VenturesAltimeter CapitalRedpoint
2026-01-22Series C· $100M
2025-04-11Series B· $45M
2024-03-13Series A· $22M
Leadership Team
David Zhao
Co-Founder and CTO
Russell D'Sa
Founder
Recent News
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