Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Design and enhance the fundamental control, data, and observability systems that drive LiveKit Cloud.

• Develop resilient architectures that span multiple regions and maintain functionality during partial failures.

• Create libraries, protocols, and tools that improve reliability and boost developer productivity throughout the organization.

• Analyze and strengthen critical pathways using metrics, tracing, testing, and insights from real-world traffic.

• Develop new platform functionalities in areas such as identity, scheduling, observability, and distributed state management.

• Prototype, test, deploy, monitor, and refine systems comprehensively.

• Collaborate across core services, telephony, and observability on the LiveKit platform.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in designing and delivering distributed systems in a production environment.

• Strong foundational programming skills.

• Good judgment and a quick learning ability.

• Capability to take full ownership of tasks: prototype, test, deploy, monitor, and iterate.

• Comfortable navigating consensus, coordination, and distributed failure scenarios.

• Ability to comprehend data flow, state, performance, and correctness.

• Skill in breaking down complex systems into manageable components.

• Clear communication skills and a pragmatic engineering mindset.

• Proficiency in Go preferred; however, willingness to learn Go is acceptable for candidates without experience.

• Practical experience with pub/sub, RPC, or coordination systems such as NATS, etcd, Raft, or Paxos is preferred.

• Familiarity with real-time or low-latency infrastructure is a plus.

• Experience in deploying observability tools, including tracing, metrics, or large-scale logging, is preferred.

• Knowledge of Go, psrpc, gRPC, Raft, NATS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and ClickHouse.

• Must be legally authorized to work in the US or the country of residence.

• Candidates must specify if they will require future sponsorship support.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity compensation package.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits.

• Flexible vacation policy.

• Opportunity to influence the brand of a rapidly growing developer platform.

• Collaboration with a small, senior team that highly values craftsmanship and creativity.