Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems is open at LiveKit in North America (remote). The posting gives a salary of $135K - $300K. Posted on Jul 23, 2026, and still on LiveKit’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
Design and evolve the core control, data, and observability systems that power LiveKit Cloud - Implement resilient, region-spanning architectures that degrade gracefully under partial failure - Build libraries, protocols, and tooling that raise reliability and developer velocity across the org - Diagnose and harden critical paths using metrics, tracing, testing, and real-world traffic insights - Shape new platform…
The opening lines of the posting. The rest is on LiveKit’s careers page.
Hiring at LiveKit
LiveKit has 33 open roles right now, 32 of them remote. Most are in Engineering, Sales & Business Development and Security. The median advertised salary across its roles with a published range is $218K. See all its roles
