Senior SRE: Scale, Reliability & Tooling

WeHireYou; Indiana (PA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance & dental

Vision benefits

Equity

Flexible vacation

Job summary

LiveKit is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Reliability, Infrastructure, and Tooling team in the United States. You will work across CockroachDB, NATS, Nebula, and Kubernetes to enhance reliability and tooling for product workloads.

You will contribute to on-call practices, incident response, and scalable infrastructure while collaborating with cross-functional teams to maintain a secure, observable platform.

Qualifications

• Experience building non-trivial, highly concurrent systems.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and distributed systems concepts.
• Proficiency with Linux internals and networking.
• Experience using observability tools to debug complex issues.

Responsibilities

• Ramp on LiveKit's global architecture and map reliability debt.
• Ship SRE work directly in product codebase (load balancing, instrumentation, scalability).
• Build and extend common tooling for self-service reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotation and fix recurring patterns.
• Contribute architectural opinions to improve decisions.

Skills

Kubernetes

Linux internals

Observability

Open source tooling

Distributed systems

Incidents handling

Tools

CockroachDB

NATS

Nebula

Kafka

ClickHouse

Job description

LiveKit is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Reliability, Infrastructure, and Tooling team in the United States. You will work across CockroachDB, NATS, Nebula, and Kubernetes to enhance reliability and tooling for product workloads.

You will contribute to on-call practices, incident response, and scalable infrastructure while collaborating with cross-functional teams to maintain a secure, observable platform.