Full-Time

Staff Infrastructure Engineer

Posted on 6/17/2025

LiveKit

LiveKit

51-200 employees

Real-time communication infrastructure provider

Compensation Overview

$120k - $250k/yr

Senior, Expert

Company Does Not Provide H1B Sponsorship

Remote in USA

Candidates must be based in the U.S.

Category
DevOps & Infrastructure
Site Reliability Engineering
Required Skills
Kubernetes
Go
Requirements
  • 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.
Responsibilities
  • 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.
Desired Qualifications
  • 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.

LiveKit provides a platform for real-time communication, focusing on video and audio streaming. Its network is designed to ensure that users experience minimal delays during calls, making conversations feel more natural and immediate. LiveKit achieves this by utilizing advanced technology that optimizes data transmission, ensuring that even in high-demand situations, the quality remains high and stable. Unlike many other communication platforms, LiveKit emphasizes ultra-low latency and can handle a large number of simultaneous users without compromising performance. The goal of LiveKit is to enhance online interactions by providing a reliable and efficient communication solution for developers and businesses.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$81.2M

Headquarters

San Jose, California

Founded

2021

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • LiveKit raised $45M in Series B funding, boosting its expansion capabilities.
  • Partnerships with OpenAI and Cerebras enhance LiveKit's multimodal AI application development.
  • The launch of ChatGPT Voice Mode positions LiveKit as a leader in voice AI.

What critics are saying

  • Increased competition from tech giants like Google and Amazon threatens market share.
  • Potential privacy concerns and regulatory scrutiny could impact operations.
  • Reliance on partnerships poses risks if partners develop competing products.

What makes LiveKit unique

  • LiveKit supports over 100,000 developers with its robust Cloud infrastructure.
  • The company offers a Multimodal Agent API with OpenAI's Realtime API support.
  • LiveKit's Agents framework allows integration of Python or Node.js in real-time rooms.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Remote Work Options

Company Equity

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-8%

1 year growth

-2%

2 year growth

-2%
Daily Company News
Apr 14th, 2025
LiveKit Secures $45M In Series B Funding And Enhances Voice AI Infrastructure

LiveKit introduced a larger semantic turn detection model with multilingual support.

Finsmes
Apr 11th, 2025
LiveKit Raises $45M in Series B at $345M Valuation

LiveKit, a San Jose, CA-based voice AI platform powering real-time multimodal AI apps like ChatGPT Voice Mode, raised $45M in Series B at a $345M valuation

Finsmes
Apr 11th, 2025
LiveKit Raises $45M in Series B

LiveKit, a voice AI platform based in San Jose, CA, raised $45 million in Series B funding at a $345 million valuation. The round was led by Altimeter Capital with participation from Redpoint Ventures and Hanabi Capital. This brings their total capital raised to $83 million. The funds will be used to expand operations and development efforts. LiveKit recently launched ChatGPT Voice Mode with OpenAI and supports over 100,000 developers with its LiveKit Cloud infrastructure.

Market News 24
Mar 28th, 2025
Comprehensive Guide to LiveKit Agents: Enhance Your Real-time Communication Solutions Today

LiveKit has launched the Agents 1.0 release candidate, allowing users to easily integrate Python or Node.js programs as real-time participants in LiveKit rooms.

LiveKit
Mar 17th, 2025
Say hello to improved Cloud analytics

When LiveKit Agents originally introduced LiveKit Cloud, LiveKit Agents also launched a realtime analytics and telemetry product to give you insights into how your users interacted with your LiveKit applications.

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