Requirements

• Experience designing and delivering distributed systems in production
• Ability to take ownership end-to-end: prototype, test, ship, monitor, and iterate
• Comfortable with consensus, coordination, and distributed failure modes
• Strong understanding of data flow, state, performance, and correctness, with ability to simplify complex systems
• Value clear communication, practical engineering, and building enjoyable systems for others

Nice to Haves

• Fluency in Go or strong interest in learning it
• Hands-on experience with pub/sub, RPC, or coordination systems such as NATS, etcd, Raft, Paxos
• Exposure to real-time or low-latency infrastructure
• Experience shipping observability tooling like tracing, metrics, or at-scale logging
• Strong individual contributor experience from past group projects

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing and evolving core control, data, and observability systems powering LiveKit Cloud
• Implementing resilient, region-spanning architectures that degrade gracefully under partial failure
• Building libraries, protocols, and tooling to raise reliability and developer velocity
• Diagnosing and hardening critical paths using metrics, tracing, testing, and real-world traffic
• Shaping new platform capabilities across identity, scheduling, observability, and distributed state management
• Working with technologies including Go, psrpc, gRPC, Raft, NATS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and ClickHouse

Perks and Benefits

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