LiveKit

Staff Rust SDK Engineer

LiveKit
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3 months ago
Remote, United States or Remote, CanadaStaff+
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$120k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain the LiveKit Rust SDK and shared Rust core modules for its multi-platform client ecosystem.
  • Mentor engineers with less Rust experience and promote high-quality, maintainable, and testable Rust code.
  • Collaborate with client SDK, agents, cloud, and product management teams on integration and developer experience.
  • Own testing, CI/CD, and release processes for Rust projects.
  • Profile and optimize performance in real-time, low-latency systems.
  • Contribute to SDK architecture and long-term technical direction for Rust and cross-platform SDK interoperability.

Requirements

  • Strong expertise in Rust and experience delivering production-quality libraries or SDKs.
  • Familiarity with common Rust ecosystem crates, including Tokio and Criterion.
  • Experience developing SDKs or libraries for multi-platform clients such as mobile, web, or embedded platforms.
  • Understanding of testing, CI/CD, and release best practices in modern Rust ecosystems.
  • Ability to collaborate and communicate across multiple teams and platforms.
  • Experience with real-time systems, networking, performance optimization, WebRTC, or related technologies is a bonus.
  • Experience with LiveKit technologies is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity package
  • Health, dental, and vision benefits
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Opportunity to contribute to open source
  • Work with world-class engineers

Tech Stack

LiveKit

About LiveKit

51-200 employees

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