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
• Effective communication and practical engineering skills

Nice to Haves

• Fluency in Go or willingness to learn
• Experience with pub/sub, RPC, or coordination systems (e.g., NATS, etcd, Raft, Paxos)
• Exposure to real-time or low-latency infrastructure
• Experience shipping observability tooling like tracing, metrics, or at-scale logging
• Demonstrated leadership or heavy contribution in group projects

What You'll Be Doing

• Design and evolve core control, data, and observability systems for LiveKit Cloud
• Implement resilient, region-spanning architectures that handle partial failures gracefully
• Build libraries, protocols, and tooling to enhance reliability and developer velocity
• Diagnose and harden critical system paths using metrics, tracing, testing, and real-world traffic
• Develop new platform features including identity, scheduling, observability, and distributed state management
• Work with technologies such as 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 valuing craft and creativity
• Competitive salary and equity package
• Health, dental, and vision benefits
• Flexible vacation policy