Forward Deployed Engineer
LiveKit · New York, NY (Remote) · San Francisco, CA (Remote) · Seattle, WA (Remote) · United States (Remote)
CHECKED 57M AGO
Infrastructureremotesenior$180k–$320k
At a glance
Highlights
- Partner directly with customers to design and scale real-time voice AI apps.
- Build prototypes and reference apps showcasing best practices on LiveKit.
- Lead technical workshops guiding teams from experimentation to launch.
What they offer
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Health, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible vacation policy
Ideal candidate
Hands-on, customer-obsessed engineer who thrives solving tricky real-world problems and helping developers launch polished, high-quality applications.
Requirements
- Strong engineering background with 7+ years in backend or infrastructure engineering
- Proficient in Go, Python, Node, Rust, C++ or similar
- Comfortable across APIs, SDKs, distributed systems and cloud infrastructure
- Experience building or integrating developer platforms or real-time systems
- Able to quickly understand complex systems and debug production issues
- Strong communicator who collaborates with customers and product teams
- Comfortable in fast-paced, low-process environments with ownership
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