Forward Deployed Engineer
LiveKit · United Kingdom (Remote)
CHECKED 1H AGO
Infrastructureremotesenior$175k–$318k
At a glance
Highlights
- Partner directly with customers to design and scale real-time voice AI apps.
- Build prototypes and reference implementations that accelerate production launches.
- Debug production issues and shape the future of the agent platform.
What they offer
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Health, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible vacation policy
Ideal candidate
Customer-obsessed problem solver with deep backend experience who thrives in fast-moving, low-process environments. You love debugging hard issues, partnering with developers, and turning real-world insight into polished products.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering
- Proficient in Go, Python, Node, Rust, or C++
- 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 able to work with customer engineering and product teams
- Comfortable in fast-paced, low-process environments with ownership and initiative
- Excited to work hands-on with customers on complex implementation challenges
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