Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LiveKit is building the infrastructure layer for the agentic era of computing. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Agent Platform team and help shape the future of agentic computing by building the software stack that drives it.
Responsibilities
- Develop the core platform for hosting agents
- Build resilient systems to deploy agents across global data centers
- Create end-to-end tooling for seamless management of hosted agents
- Work across Go, Firecracker, Docker, Temporal, Kubernetes, and similar technologies
- Own significant portions of the platform end-to-end, from design through deployment and iteration
Skills
- Strong SWE/SDE/SRE background with deep backend experience
- Deeply competent in some of the technologies we use: Go, networking, Kubernetes, buildkitd/Docker/containerd
- Skilled in containerization platforms and capable of digging into low-level details to solve complex problems
- Experienced designing and maintaining production distributed systems
- Self-starter who can jump in, own portions of a project, and drive decisions
- Experience running untrusted code in isolated environments (gVisor, Firecracker, or similar)
- Experience at companies offering serverless functions or container platforms (Fly.io, Cloudflare, AWS Lambda, GCP)
- Background in OCI/container internals — speeding boot times, snapshotter optimizations, image layering
- Experience with software-defined networking, anycast, BGP, or VPC integration for serverless workloads
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Health, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible vacation policy
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