LiveKit
Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
Remote Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJun 3, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
USA
Role overview
Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
Requirements and responsibilities
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You'll thrive as a Distributed Systems Engineer if you:
- obsess with 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 others
- are a fast learner, frequently picking up new languages and tools
What You'll Do:
- Design and evolve the core control, data, and observability systems that power LiveKit Cloud
- Implement resilient, region-spanning architectures that degrade gracefully under partial failure
- Build libraries, protocols, and tooling that raise reliability and developer velocity across the org
- Diagnose and harden critical paths using metrics, tracing, testing, and real-world traffic insights
- Shape new platform capabilities across identity, scheduling, observability, and distributed state management
- Technologies include: Go, psrpc, gRPC, Raft, NATS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse
Who You Are:
- You have experience designing and delivering distributed systems in production
- You take ownership end-to-end - prototype, test, ship, monitor, and iterate
- You're comfortable with consensus, coordination, and the realities of distributed failure modes
- You think in terms of data flow, state, performance, and correctness, and you can reduce complex systems into understandable components
- You value clear communication, practical engineering, and building systems that others enjoy working with
Nice to haves
- Go fluency — if you haven't written Go yet, you've been meaning to
- Hands-on experience with pub/sub, RPC, or coordination systems (NATS, etcd, Raft, Paxos)
- Exposure to real-time or low-latency infrastructure — you know what microseconds feel like
- You've shipped observability tooling you'd actually want to use (tracing, metrics, at-scale logging)
- In those school group projects, you did most of the work (:sigh:)
We offer
- The opportunity to shape the brand of a fast-growing developer platform
- Collaboration with a small, senior team that deeply values craft and creativity
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Health, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible vacation policy
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