2 months ago
Base Salary
$170k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Work directly with customer engineering teams remotely or on-site when necessary to design and implement real-time applications built on LiveKit
- Design scalable architectures for voice AI, real-time media, and developer platform use cases
- Build prototype integrations, reference implementations, and sample applications
- Help customers navigate SDKs, APIs, infrastructure, and deployment strategies for production systems
- Debug and troubleshoot complex technical issues in production environments
- Lead technical workshops and architecture sessions with developers and product teams
- Translate customer needs into technical insights for product and platform development
- Partner with Product and Engineering to improve developer experience, documentation, and tooling
- Contribute code, examples, or improvements to LiveKit’s open-source ecosystem
- Advise customers through launching and scaling applications on LiveKit
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering
- Proficiency in one or more of Go, Python, Node, Rust, or C++
- Comfort working across APIs, SDKs, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure
- Experience building or integrating developer platforms or real-time systems
- Ability to understand complex systems quickly and debug issues in real-world environments
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with customer engineering, product, and internal engineering teams
- Comfort working in fast-paced, low-process environments with ownership and initiative
- Hands-on interest in solving complex technical implementation challenges with customers
- Nice to have experience with WebRTC, real-time media systems, or telephony/SIP infrastructure
- Nice to have familiarity with voice AI, conversational agents, or AI infrastructure
- Nice to have experience in customer-facing engineering roles such as Solutions Engineer, Field Engineer, or Forward Deployed Engineer
- Nice to have open-source or developer ecosystem experience
- Nice to have previous experience building with or integrating LiveKit
Benefits
- Remote work, with on-site customer work when necessary
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Health, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible vacation policy
- Opportunity to contribute to open source
About LiveKit
LiveKit offers open source frameworks and a cloud platform for building voice, video, and physical AI agents.