LiveKit

LiveKit

Backend Engineer, Real-Time Media

North America

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JavaGoRustC++C#CDistributed SystemsAlgorithmsGitRESTAgentic AISalesforceNegotiationVoIP

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About the role

  • Every call, stream, and agent conversation running on LiveKit passes through our real-time media backend.
  • Today a very small team covers this surface, so the scope is unusually large for one engineer - you'll set direction on reliability, performance, and protocol adoption (including newer transports like MoQ/WARP) rather than picking up tickets.
  • This is a role for someone who has built real time systems real customers relied on, and who wants that work to matter to the whole product rather than sit in a corner of it.

Responsibilities

  • Own and operate the LiveKit SFU and real time media distribution mesh - including their reliability and on-call
  • Build new real time systems to support customer-facing features, from first design through production
  • Drive down latency and improve call quality across every session on the platform
  • Partner with client SDK, infrastructure, and product teams on cloud mesh architecture and cross-cutting reliability work, and serve as the internal expert those teams consult
  • You design asynchronous and multi-threaded systems, and can debug them under production load
  • LiveKit is building the infrastructure layer for the agentic era of computing.

Requirements

  • You know the WebRTC stack from the inside: ICE, DTLS-SRTP, RTP/RTCP, congestion control, SDP negotiation

Nice to have

  • Contributions to Pion open-source media stack
  • Built instrumentation for real-time media quality measurement
  • Distributed systems algorithms, including consensus
  • 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.
  • You're a strong systems programmer in Go, Rust, C/C++, Java, or C# (Go preferred)

Skills

  • are a fast learner, frequently picking up new languages and tools

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.
  • You've built critical real time media systems and pipelines that real customers depended on - you wrote the code, not just the integration
  • Our platform gives developers everything they need to build, test, deploy, scale, and observe AI agents in production.
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