Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Job Description:

LiveKit is on a mission to help developers create and scale real-time experiences. We are hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to help manage and scale the core components of the LiveKit infrastructure. Visibility, performance, and reliability of our globally distributed architecture is critical and a top priority.

What You'll Do

• Build and own the foundational infrastructure that our products run upon.

• Work directly on our products' golang code base to implement SRE related objectives.

• Take a data driven approach to quantifying system performance and reliability and use it to drive project priorities.

• Oncall participation including leading incident management for complex situations.

• Work on automation and advanced configuration management to allow our team to manage large numbers of clusters distributed across the world running various products.

• Work with infrastructure vendors when their solutions aren't meeting our real time performance and reliability needs.

Who You Are

• A balance of strengths in both software engineering and large scale system administration.

• Experience managing complex multi-region distributed systems running on top of container orchestration systems like Kubernetes.

• Passionate about maintainability and keeping system complexity at bay, but able to balance this with meeting launch deadlines.

Bonus Points

• Incident management training and experience being an Incident Commander.

• Experience with Linux networking, overlay networks, and Kubernetes CNIs.

• Low level knowledge for troubleshooting and tuning latency sensitive workloads.

Our Commitments to You

We offer:

• A competitive salary and equity package.

• Health, dental, and vision benefits

• Flexible vacations

• Remote work environment with necessary equipment provided.

Ready to Apply?

If you're excited about driving the future of AI-native communications and want to make a significant impact at a high-growth company, we'd love to hear from you.