Senior Infrastructure Engineer

About This Role

We're hiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join the small team that owns the cloud foundation all of LiveKit's real-time products run on — reliability, networking, and shared platform primitives like CockroachDB, NATS, and Nebula.

LiveKit is at 3B+ calls per year, and the reliability surface area is growing faster than team capacity. There are three buckets of work on this team: (1) Product SRE — jumping directly into the product codebase and implementing reliability goals within it: load balancing, load shedding, instrumentation, scalability, efficiency. (2) Self-service platform tooling — building frameworks and libraries so product teams can self-serve reliability without Infra as a bottleneck. (3) Reactive work — on-call, urgent feature requests, reliability debt. The goal is to minimize #3 through #1 and #2.

There is still meaningful reliability debt to work through when you join. We're being honest about that up front. The upside: small team, high ownership, and real influence over how a global real-time platform scales.

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

The best way to impress us is with thoughtful Issues and/or PRs on our GitHub repos.

What You'll Do

• Ramp on LiveKit's global architecture — CockroachDB, NATS, Nebula, Kubernetes — and map where reliability debt lives
• Ship product SRE work directly in the product codebase: load balancing, load shedding, instrumentation, scalability, efficiency
• Build and extend common tooling so product teams can self-service reliability without Infra as a bottleneck
• Participate in the on-call rotation and help resolve recurring reliability patterns
• Bring informed systems opinions that improve how the team makes architectural decisions

Who You Are

• Strong Go fluency — you write production Go, not just read it
• Kubernetes at depth (internals + networking), not just ops
• Comfortable working directly in product codebases, not only around them
• Debug by looking behind the curtain, not just at dashboards
• Track record of building or operating production distributed systems at scale

Nice to Have

• Experience with CockroachDB, NATS, or similar distributed systems
• Google SRE or equivalent high-scale background
• Nebula, WireGuard, or similar overlay networking experience
• Open source contributions, especially on infra or developer tools
• Experience in realtime, audio/video, or low-latency systems

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

LiveKit is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable law. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact recruiting@livekit.io.