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Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Posted 10 months ago

LiveKit provides an open-source platform and global infrastructure for building real-time audio, video, and data experiences using WebRTC. Teams use it to power video calls, broadcasts, AI voice agents, and more—self-hosted or cloud-managed. The company prioritizes performance, security, and developer control.

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LiveKit Infrastructure Engineer

LiveKit is on a mission to help developers create and scale real-time experiences. We are hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to help manage and scale the core components of the LiveKit infrastructure. Visibility, performance, and reliability of our globally distributed architecture is critical and a top priority.

What You'll Do

  • Build and own the foundational infrastructure that our products run upon.

  • Work directly on our products' golang code base to implement SRE related objectives.

  • Take a data driven approach to quantifying system performance and reliability and use it to drive project priorities.

  • Oncall participation including leading incident management for complex situations.

  • Work on automation and advanced configuration management to allow our team to manage large numbers of clusters distributed across the world running various products.

  • Work with infrastructure vendors when their solutions aren't meeting our real time performance and reliability needs.

Who You Are

  • A balance of strengths in both software engineering and large scale system administration.

  • Experience managing complex multi-region distributed systems running on top of container orchestration systems like Kubernetes.

  • Passionate about maintainability and keeping system complexity at bay, but able to balance this with meeting launch deadlines.

Bonus Points

  • Incident management training and experience being an Incident Commander.

  • Experience with Linux networking, overlay networks, and Kubernetes CNIs.

  • Low level knowledge for troubleshooting and tuning latency sensitive workloads.

Our Commitments to You

We offer:

  • A competitive salary and equity package.

  • Health, dental, and vision benefits

  • Flexible vacations

  • Remote work environment with necessary equipment provided.

Ready to Apply?

If you're excited about driving the future of AI-native communications and want to make a significant impact at a high-growth company, we'd love to hear from you.

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Posted on

Jul 1, 2025

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Jul 31, 2025EXPIRED

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