LiveKit
Senior Product Engineer
North America · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 153 days ago
TypeScriptGoDistributed SystemsKubernetesAgentic AISalesforceCommunication
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About the role
- You'll write a lot of production code in TypeScript and Go, work end to end across the stack, and ship features that real developers depend on.
- We expect strong technical chops and a high bar for craft.
- What sets a Product Engineer apart at LiveKit is product instinct.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship core product surfaces end to end, primarily on the web and in our CLI
- Design and implement features that make LiveKit feel obvious and powerful to the developers using it
- Contribute to technical and product decisions that shape what we build next
- A track record of building user-facing software that developers or technical users actually adopted
- LiveKit is building the infrastructure layer for the agentic era of computing.
Requirements
- 6+ years of engineering experience, with meaningful time spent shipping product end-to-end
- Comfort with ambiguity.
- You can take a vague problem, frame it, and start shipping.
- The things you ship are built from deep knowledge of actual customer use-cases, and you continuously measure, seek feedback, and iterate to maximize your impact.
Nice to have
- Experience working with and operating production distributed systems (Kubernetes-based deployments, analytics/telemetry, and observability) at scale
- Open source contributions, especially on infra or developer tools
- Background in realtime, audio/video, or AI tooling
- Based in or willing to spend time in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Contribute to open source alongside world-class engineers
- LiveKit is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable law.
- Strong coding skills in TypeScript, with fluency in modern web frameworks.
- Comfort with Go is a plus.
Skills
- pick up new languages, tools, and domains quickly
Compensation
- Competitive salary and equity package
Company info
- Founded in 2021, LiveKit powers voice and agentic AI applications for OpenAI, Salesforce, Spotify, Meta, and tens of thousands of other developers, collectively facilitating billions of calls each year.
- This role can be based remotely or in our SF HQ, where you'll be part of a collaborative in-office culture!
- Engage directly with developers and customers to understand how they're building with LiveKit and where the rough edges are
- Our platform gives developers everything they need to build, test, deploy, scale, and observe AI agents in production.
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