Forward Deployed Engineer

2 months ago

Remote, Worldwide or San Francisco, CA, USASenior

H1B Sponsor

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 successful application launches and scaling on LiveKit.

At least 5 years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience.
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 quickly and debug issues in real-world production 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.

51-200 employees

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