10 hours ago
Base Salary
$135k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own and operate the LiveKit SFU and real-time media distribution mesh, including reliability and on-call responsibilities.
- Build new real-time systems for customer-facing features from design through production.
- Reduce latency and improve call quality across platform sessions.
- Assess and adopt modern media and transport protocols, including MoQ/WARP.
- Partner with client SDK, infrastructure, and product teams on cloud mesh architecture and cross-cutting reliability work.
- Serve as an internal expert on real-time media systems and tackle technical problems with high individual ownership.
Requirements
- Experience building critical real-time media systems and pipelines that real customers relied on, including writing the underlying code rather than only integrating systems.
- Deep knowledge of the WebRTC stack, including ICE, DTLS-SRTP, RTP/RTCP, congestion control, and SDP negotiation.
- Strong systems programming ability in Go, Rust, C, C++, Java, or C#, with Go preferred.
- Experience designing asynchronous and multithreaded systems and debugging them under production load.
- Clear communication skills and ability to work with high individual ownership on a small team.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity package.
- Health, dental, and vision benefits.
- Flexible vacation policy.
- Opportunity to build impactful technology and contribute to open source alongside experienced engineers.
About LiveKit
LiveKit builds open-source frameworks and a managed cloud platform for real-time voice, video, and AI agents used by software teams. Developers use it to build, deploy, scale, and observe agents, with products that include agent hosting and ultra-low-latency communications APIs. Founded in 2021 and privately held, LiveKit lists customers such as OpenAI, xAI, Salesforce, Coursera, and Spotify.