LiveKit Infrastructure Engineer
LiveKit is on a mission to help developers create and scale real-time experiences. We are hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to help manage and scale the core components of the LiveKit infrastructure. Visibility, performance, and reliability of our globally distributed architecture is critical and a top priority.
What You'll Do
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Build and own the foundational infrastructure that our products run upon.
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Work directly on our products' golang code base to implement SRE related objectives.
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Take a data driven approach to quantifying system performance and reliability and use it to drive project priorities.
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Oncall participation including leading incident management for complex situations.
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Work on automation and advanced configuration management to allow our team to manage large numbers of clusters distributed across the world running various products.
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Work with infrastructure vendors when their solutions aren't meeting our real time performance and reliability needs.
Who You Are
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A balance of strengths in both software engineering and large scale system administration.
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Experience managing complex multi-region distributed systems running on top of container orchestration systems like Kubernetes.
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Passionate about maintainability and keeping system complexity at bay, but able to balance this with meeting launch deadlines.
Bonus Points
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Incident management training and experience being an Incident Commander.
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Experience with Linux networking, overlay networks, and Kubernetes CNIs.
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Low level knowledge for troubleshooting and tuning latency sensitive workloads.
Our Commitments to YouWe offer:
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A competitive salary and equity package.
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Health, dental, and vision benefits
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Flexible vacations
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Remote work environment with necessary equipment provided.
Ready to Apply?
If you're excited about driving the future of AI-native communications and want to make a significant impact at a high-growth company, we'd love to hear from you.
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