LiveKit
Senior Software Engineer, Media Backend
Remote, U.S · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 60 days ago
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About the role
- Recordings, ingest from arbitrary sources, exports to wherever a session needs to land, format and codec handling across a long tail of inputs - this is the connective tissue that makes voice agents useful beyond the live conversation.
- The scope is broad, the surface area is large, and the impact is visible across every product built on LiveKit.
- Your work will be felt across every LiveKit-powered voice agent - in every recording reviewed, every session replayed, every pipeline that feeds them.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize the media pipeline and services around LiveKit's real-time core
- Build distributed systems that ingest media from heterogeneous sources into the LiveKit ecosystem, and export LiveKit sessions to wherever they need to go
- Support and advise other teams building on top of media services, and raise the quality bar for the systems they depend on
- Help maintain operational excellence
- You own your work end-to-end, from design through implementation, deployment, and iteration
- You value clear communication and building systems that others enjoy working with
- LiveKit is building the infrastructure layer for the voice-driven era of computing.
- An opportunity to build something truly impactful to the world
Requirements
- You have a strong grasp of distributed systems - asynchronous pipelines, parallel processing, and synchronization - and can break complex systems into clear components
- Experience with media pipelines, systems, and algorithms is valuable, but we weigh programming fundamentals, judgment, and the ability to learn quickly just as heavily.
Compensation
- Competitive salary and equity package
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Health, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible vacation policy
Company info
- Our platform gives developers everything they need to build, test, deploy, scale, and observe agents in production.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable law.
- If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact recruiting@livekit.io.
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