LiveKit
Senior Software Engineer, Agent Platform
Remote Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJan 13, 2025
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
USA
Role overview
Senior Software Engineer, Agent Platform
Requirements and responsibilities
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You'll Thrive Here If You:
- obsess over crafting code that is fast, reliable, and practical for the problem
- are known as the go-to person for tackling tough technical problems
- work hard and can build and ship fast
- can clearly explain complex technical concepts to other engineers
- are a fast learner, frequently picking up new languages and tools
What You'll Do
- Develop the core platform for hosting agents
- Build resilient systems to deploy agents across global data centers
- Create end-to-end tooling for seamless management of hosted agents
- Work across Go, Firecracker, Docker, Temporal, Kubernetes, and similar technologies
- Own significant portions of the platform end-to-end, from design through deployment and iteration
Who You Are
- Strong SWE/SDE/SRE background with deep backend experience
- Deeply competent in some of the technologies we use: Go, networking, Kubernetes, buildkitd/Docker/containerd
- Skilled in containerization platforms and capable of digging into low-level details to solve complex problems
- Experienced designing and maintaining production distributed systems
- Self-starter who can jump in, own portions of a project, and drive decisions
Nice to haves
- Experience running untrusted code in isolated environments (gVisor, Firecracker, or similar)
- Experience at companies offering serverless functions or container platforms (Fly.io, Cloudflare, AWS Lambda, GCP)
- Background in OCI/container internals — speeding boot times, snapshotter optimizations, image layering
- Experience with software-defined networking, anycast, BGP, or VPC integration for serverless workloads
Our Commitment to You
- An opportunity to build something truly impactful to the world
- Contribute to open source alongside world-class engineers
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Health, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible vacation policy
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