About LiveKit
LiveKit is building the infrastructure layer for the agentic era of computing. Our platform gives developers everything they need to build, test, deploy, scale, and observe AI agents in production. Founded in 2021, LiveKit powers voice and agentic AI applications for OpenAI, Salesforce, Spotify, Meta, and tens of thousands of other developers, collectively facilitating billions of calls each year.
About This Role
We're hiring 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.
The Agent Platform is the core infrastructure for hosting agents at scale: container builds, fast cold-starts, isolation of untrusted workloads, networking, observability, and the developer tooling that ties it all together. This is your chance to work on groundbreaking innovations in agentic computing, contributing to the platform that powers the next generation of voice and AI applications.
If you're eager to dig deep into systems, take real ownership over a fast-growing product area, and ship features developers depend on — we want to hear from you.
You'll Thrive Here If You:
obsess over crafting code that is fast, reliable, and practical for the problem
are known as the go-to person for tackling tough technical problems
work hard and can build and ship fast
can clearly explain complex technical concepts to other engineers
are a fast learner, frequently picking up new languages and tools
The best way to impress us is with thoughtful Issues and/or PRs on our GitHub repos.
What You'll Do
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
Who You Are
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
Nice to Have
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
Our Commitment to You
An opportunity to build something truly impactful to the world
Contribute to open source alongside world-class engineers
Competitive salary and equity package
Health, dental, and vision benefits
Flexible vacation policy
LiveKit is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable law. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact recruiting@livekit.io.