Skip to content
CV Rocket
Get started
How it worksThe enginePricingBlogContactSign in

Open nowPosted 144 days ago

Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems

LiveKit29 open roles

Pay
$135,000 – $300,000 a year
Where
North America
Work mode
Remote
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Your applicationOpen nowSenior Software Engineer, Distributed SystemsLiveKit · North America

  1. YouYes, apply to this one.

  2. CV RocketCV written for this posting.

  3. 25 readersRecruiter, hiring manager, skeptic. Round after round.

  4. CV RocketApplied on LiveKit's own form.

The reply lands in your private mailbox

3×more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

The clock on this job

Early applications get read.

12.3% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. LiveKit postings stay open a median of 61 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.1%1 day
  2. 4.5%3 days
  3. 12.3%7 days
  4. 19.3%14 days
  5. 35.6%30 days
  6. 57.8%60 days
This job: posted 144 days ago

LiveKit median: 61 days open

The posting

ABOUT LIVEKIT

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 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.

You'll work on problems where latency, availability, and operational simplicity are critical, and where the right answer often requires careful tradeoffs and outside-the-box thinking. While distributed systems experience is valuable, we care just as much about strong programming fundamentals, sound judgment, and the ability to learn fast. The team is small. Your decisions ship directly into production.

You'll thrive as a Distributed Systems Engineer if you:

- obsess with 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 others

- 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

- Design and evolve the core control, data, and observability systems that power LiveKit Cloud

- Implement resilient, region-spanning architectures that degrade gracefully under partial failure

- Build libraries, protocols, and tooling that raise reliability and developer velocity across the org

- Diagnose and harden critical paths using metrics, tracing, testing, and real-world traffic insights

- Shape new platform capabilities across identity, scheduling, observability, and distributed state management

- Technologies include: Go, psrpc, gRPC, Raft, NATS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse

WHO YOU ARE

- You have experience designing and delivering distributed systems in production

- You take ownership end-to-end - prototype, test, ship, monitor, and iterate

- You're comfortable with consensus, coordination, and the realities of distributed failure modes

- You think in terms of data flow, state, performance, and correctness, and you can reduce complex systems into understandable components

- You value clear communication, practical engineering, and building systems that others enjoy working with

NICE TO HAVE

- Go fluency — if you haven't written Go yet, you've been meaning to

- Hands-on experience with pub/sub, RPC, or coordination systems (NATS, etcd, Raft, Paxos)

- Exposure to real-time or low-latency infrastructure — you know what microseconds feel like

- You've shipped observability tooling you'd actually want to use (tracing, metrics, at-scale logging)

- In those school group projects, you did most of the work (:sigh:)

WE OFFER

- The opportunity to shape the brand of a fast-growing developer platform

- Collaboration with a small, senior team that deeply values craft and creativity

- 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 [email protected].

From $25, paid onceGet the CV for this job

What happens when you press

One press. We do the rest.

  1. A CV for this posting

    Written against LiveKit's own wording, from every piece of relevant proof in your profile.

  2. 25 readers review it

    Recruiter, hiring manager, skeptic and more read every draft, round after round. You get the best round.

    The review screen in CV Rocket: how each CV was read, round by round.

  3. We apply on LiveKit's form

    Our application engine gets through the hardest forms there are. Where a question needs you, AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

    An application in CV Rocket: every answer filled in on the employer's form.

  4. Every reply, sorted

    LiveKit's answer lands in your private mailbox, and we classify it on arrival: interview, question, rejection.

    The CV Rocket inbox: each employer reply classified as an interview, an action or a rejection.

  5. Reply with AI

    AI helps you write the email, checks it and sends it. We show you whether the recruiter read it.

  6. The interview in your calendar

    Full integration with your calendar. The invitation goes straight in.

    An interview invitation in the CV Rocket inbox, added to the candidate's calendar.
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Why it works

3×

more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT writes a CV and never learns what happened to it. We see every reply. For each CV we know:

  • How it was written, and how the review scored it
  • When we applied, and how long after the posting went up
  • Which posting, which company, which city
  • Who got the interview, and who heard nothing

That is how we know which CVs get called.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

The numbers game

More applications. More interviews.

Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting and paid once. Send enough of them and the law of large numbers finds you the job.

Get the CV for this job
By hand5–10
With CV Rocket100
applications a day

Nearby

Live postings like this one

Same employer first, then the same role elsewhere.

Before you press

Straight answers

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

What if my background isn't good enough?

We make the most of the background you have. The CV uses every piece of relevant proof your profile holds, and one of the 25 readers reads your whole profile and flags what the CV left out.

Do you really apply for me?

Yes, on the employer's own form, the hardest ones included. Where a question needs you, you answer it right there and AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

Is it a subscription?

No. You pay once per CV, from $25. Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting.

One job. One CV.
Paid once.

Pick the posting you want. We write for it, apply for you and catch the reply.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.