# Senior Infrastructure Engineer

**Company:** [LiveKit](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/livekit)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $120k – $250k/yr
**Skills:** Go, Kubernetes, Linux, SRE, Incident Management, Container Orchestration, Distributed Systems, Automation, Configuration Management
**Posted:** 2026-03-18

> Builds and owns foundational infrastructure for globally distributed systems, implements SRE objectives in Golang, manages Kubernetes clusters, and leads incident response. Requires expertise in software engineering, systems administration, and multi-region operations.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Build and own the foundational infrastructure that our products run upon.
- Work directly on our products' golang code base to implement SRE related objectives.
- Take a data driven approach to quantifying system performance and reliability and use it to drive project priorities.
- Oncall participation including leading incident management for complex situations.
- Work on automation and advanced configuration management to allow our team to manage large numbers of clusters distributed across the world running various products.
- Work with infrastructure vendors when their solutions aren't meeting our real time performance and reliability needs.

## Who You Are
- A balance of strengths in both software engineering and large scale system administration.
- Experience managing complex multi-region distributed systems running on top of container orchestration systems like **Kubernetes**.
- Passionate about maintainability and keeping system complexity at bay, but able to balance this with meeting launch deadlines.

## Bonus Points
- Incident management training and experience being an Incident Commander.
- Experience with Linux networking, overlay networks, and **Kubernetes** CNIs.
- Low level knowledge for troubleshooting and tuning latency sensitive workloads.

## Our Commitments to You
**We offer:**
- A competitive salary and equity package.
- Health, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible vacations
- Remote work environment with necessary equipment provided.

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