Staff Security Engineer

LiveKit
North America, EMEA
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 150,000 - 250,000 annuallyFunction: CybersecurityExperience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Leadership"]

Security-focused software engineer role owning end-to-end security across LiveKit’s stack, building tooling, leading threat modeling and secure code reviews, and partnering with engineers to design secure-by-default APIs and deployments in a remote, multi-location environment.

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LiveKit
LiveKit
1 year ago

Staff Security Engineer

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Job Summary

Security-focused software engineer role owning end-to-end security across LiveKit’s stack, building tooling, leading threat modeling and secure code reviews, and partnering with engineers to design secure-by-default APIs and deployments in a remote, multi-location environment.
Location: North America, EMEA
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Cybersecurity
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own security across the stack—applications, services, infrastructure, and developer workflows.
  • •Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks in both infrastructure and application codebases.
  • •Lead secure code reviews, architecture discussions, and threat modeling sessions.
  • •Build tooling and automations that help prevent security issues before they reach production.
  • •Harden authentication and access control across internal and external surfaces.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 150,000 - 250,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionRemote WorkEquity

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years of experience as a software engineer with an interest in security engineering.
  • •Hands-on engineer who understands security from first principles.
  • •Experience with CI/CD systems, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP), and containerized environments.
  • •Led or heavily contributed to security engineering efforts across applications, infrastructure, or both.
  • •Threat modeling, secure coding practices, and vulnerability management.
Experience:6+ yearsSecurity engineeringCloudWeb security
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingLeadership
Tech Stack:AWSGCPCI/CDDockerKubernetes

Company Brief

LiveKit
LiveKit provides an open-source realtime cloud and developer platform for building, deploying, and scaling voice, video, and physical AI agents with low-latency WebRTC infrastructure and edge services for production voice/video applications.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Jose, United States
Founded: 2021
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