Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

Highlights

• Design core control, data, and observability systems for LiveKit Cloud.
• Build resilient, region-spanning architectures that degrade gracefully.
• Ship directly to production on a small team powering billions of calls.

What they offer

• Competitive salary and equity package
• Health, dental, and vision benefits
• Flexible vacation policy

Ideal candidate

A fast-learning builder who obsesses over fast, reliable code and owns tough infrastructure problems end-to-end, thriving on small teams where judgment and clear communication matter.

Requirements

• Experience designing and delivering distributed systems in production
• Comfortable with consensus, coordination and distributed failure modes
• Takes end-to-end ownership from prototype to ship, monitor and iterate
• Thinks in data flow, state, performance and correctness
• Clear communication and practical engineering mindset