Distributed Systems Engineer

LiveKit is revolutionizing the AI landscape by providing the essential network infrastructure that powers multimodal AI interfaces, enabling seamless audio and visual interactions. Founded in 2021, LiveKit has rapidly grown to support over 3 Billion calls annually, 200,000+ developers globally, and industry giants like OpenAI, Salesforce, Spotify, and Meta. We’re looking for a Senior/Staff Engineer to expand the foundations of LiveKit’s cloud platform. This is a role with broad technical scope and impact, working on shared systems that influence how LiveKit designs, operates, and scales its services. In this role, you’ll design and implement core elements of our infrastructure, from control plane components to internal libraries and tooling. You’ll work on complex systems where latency, availability, and operational simplicity are critical, and where solutions often require careful tradeoffs and outside-the-box thinking. While experience with distributed systems is valuable, we place equal importance on strong programming fundamentals, sound judgment, and the ability to learn quickly. You’ll be expected to approach problems from first principles, help shape technical direction through implementation, and raise the quality bar for systems others build on. Your work will have direct, lasting impact across LiveKit’s products and engineering organization.