Backend Engineer, Real-Time Media
LiveKit · North America · APJ · EMEA
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Infrastructureremote$135k–$300k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own SFU and global media mesh behind billions of calls yearly.
- Build new real-time systems from first design to production.
- Drive latency down and lift call quality across all sessions.
What they offer
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Health, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible vacation policy
- Contribute to open source alongside world-class engineers
Ideal candidate
Systems builder who has owned real-time services customers depended on and thrives with high ownership on a small team. Obsesses over fast, reliable code and sharp technical communication.
Requirements
- Built critical real-time media systems and pipelines depended on by real customers
- Deep knowledge of WebRTC stack: ICE, DTLS-SRTP, RTP/RTCP, congestion control, SDP negotiation
- Strong systems programming in Go, Rust, C/C++, Java, or C# (Go preferred)
- Designs asynchronous and multi-threaded systems and debugs under production load
- Thrives with high individual ownership on a small team and communicates clearly
Lab profile
About LiveKit
Infrastructure layer to build, test, deploy, and scale voice and agentic AI
What they build
- Agents development platform
- Real-time voice and video infrastructure
- Agent testing, deployment and observability tools
Known for
- Real-time multimodal voice and video
- Production scale with billions of calls
- Trusted by OpenAI, Meta, Salesforce, Spotify
Key facts
- Founded in 2021
- Billions of calls per year
- 100,000+ developers