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Forward Deployed Engineer

LiveKit · United Kingdom (Remote)

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Infrastructureremotesenior$175k–$318k
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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
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