LiveKit

Forward Deployed Engineer

LiveKit
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2 months ago
Remote, IndiaSenior
H1B Sponsor

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 use SDKs, APIs, infrastructure, and deployment strategies for production systems
  • Debug and troubleshoot complex technical issues in production environments
  • Lead technical workshops and architecture sessions
  • 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

  • 5+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering
  • Proficiency in one or more of Go, Python, Node, Rust, or C++
  • Experience working across APIs, SDKs, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure
  • Experience building or integrating developer platforms or real-time systems
  • Ability to understand complex systems and debug issues in real-world environments
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills with customer engineering, product, and internal engineering teams
  • Experience with WebRTC, real-time media systems, telephony/SIP infrastructure, voice AI, conversational agents, AI infrastructure, customer-facing engineering, open-source projects, or LiveKit is preferred

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity package
  • Health, dental, and vision benefits
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Remote work, with on-site customer work when necessary
  • Opportunity to contribute to open source

Categories

Forward Deployed
LiveKit

About LiveKit

51-200 employees

LiveKit offers open source frameworks and a cloud platform for building voice, video, and physical AI agents.