Distributed Systems Engineer
remotemid$200K – $300K
via Ashby
About this role
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, 100,000+ developers globally, and industry giants like OpenAI, Character AI, Spotify, and Meta.
ABOUT THIS ROLE:
We're looking for a Senior/Staff Engineer to work across some of the most technically demanding parts of LiveKit's platform — core services, telephony, and observability. At LiveKit, the infrastructure is the product — you're not building the layer underneath, you are the layer.…
What we'd score you on
reqspace match rubricFive dimensions, recruiter-grade. Upload your resume and we'll generate a written explanation of where you fit and where the gaps are.
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Skills match
For this role: go, grpc, clickhouse, kubernetes, prometheus…
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Level fit
This role is mid-level. We check your trajectory against it.
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Domain experience
Your work in the role's domain matters more than your years total. We weight recent and direct experience.
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Recency
A skill you used last quarter weighs more than one from five years ago. We grade on recency, not lifetime.
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Location fit
This role is remote-eligible — we factor in your stated location and time-zone overlap.
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Skills in this role
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gogrpcclickhousekubernetesprometheusopentelemetryopenaigithub