Senior Technical Recruiter
LiveKit
•$150,000 - $200,000
About The Position
LiveKit is building infrastructure for voice-driven computing, providing developers with tools to build, test, deploy, scale, and observe production agents. The Senior Technical Recruiter will partner with engineering teams as a Talent Business Partner, focusing on steady, ongoing engineering hiring and deeply understanding both the roles and their business impact. The role emphasizes thoughtful recruiting, proactive sourcing, strong candidate experience, and building repeatable talent systems.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of full-cycle technical recruiting experience, mostly in-house.
- Experience owning and closing senior- and staff-level engineering searches.
- Ability to have substantive conversations with engineers about their work.
- Proactive sourcing experience rather than relying on inbound applicants.
- Recruiting experience at infrastructure, developer tools, open source, or AI companies.
- Experience using Ashby and Gem, or strong opinions about recruiting tools used.
- Experience building or rebuilding a recruiting process from scratch.
- Experience persuading a candidate to accept an offer over a big-tech offer.
Nice To Haves
- Located in San Francisco.
- Degree or certificate in computer science.
- Experience with executive recruiting.
Responsibilities
- Own 8–10 engineering and technical searches end to end, from kickoff through signed offer.
- Partner with engineering hiring managers to define role requirements and challenge requirements that do not align with the market.
- Proactively source infrastructure, backend, SDK, and AI engineers who are not actively looking for jobs.
- Understand candidates’ motivations and develop strategies to engage and attract them.
- Build pipelines for recurring roles so new searches do not start from zero.
- Run an honest, authentic, and clear recruiting process that emphasizes candidate experience, including for candidates who are not hired.
- Help build Talent team systems, including sourcing playbooks and interview kits.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity package.
- Health, dental, and vision benefits.
- Flexible vacation policy.
- Opportunity to contribute to open source alongside world-class engineers.
- Opportunity to build something impactful to the world.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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