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Distributed Systems Engineer
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Backend Full-time Permanent
Job details
$200K-$300K Salary
Remote Eligibility
Not specified Experience
Full-time Employment
About this role
LiveKit is hiring a Senior/Staff Distributed Systems Engineer to work on core services, telephony, and observability. The role focuses on latency, availability, and operational simplicity in a production-grade platform powering multimodal AI (clients include OpenAI, Character AI, Spotify, Meta). The team is small and decisions ship directly to production. Strong programming fundamentals and ability to learn fast are prioritized alongside distributed systems experience.