Forward Deployed Engineer
LiveKit · Ireland (Remote)
CHECKED 1H AGO
Infrastructureremotesenior$171k–$307k
At a glance
Highlights
- Partner directly with customers to design and scale real-time voice AI applications.
- Build prototypes and reference implementations to accelerate customer launches.
- Turn field insights into product improvements that shape the LiveKit platform.
What they offer
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Health, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible vacation policy
Ideal candidate
Customer-obsessed engineer who loves solving tricky real-world problems alongside developers and moving fast from prototype to production with polish and ownership.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering
- Proficient in Go, Python, Node, Rust, or C++
- Experience with APIs, SDKs, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure
- Experience building or integrating developer platforms or real-time systems
- Ability to debug complex issues in production environments
- Strong communicator comfortable working directly with customers
- 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