Senior Infrastructure Engineer

About the 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. This includes 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.

Responsibilities

• Jump directly into the product codebase and implement reliability goals within it: 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Qualifications

• Strong fluency in Go — 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.

Skills

• 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.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package.
• Health, dental, and vision benefits.
• Flexible vacation policy.

Pay

Compensation Range: $200K - $300K

Schedule

Not specified