livekit - Forward Deployed Engineer
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Requirements
• Strong engineering background with 5+ years of experience in backend or infrastructure engineering. • Proficient in one or more programming languages such as Go, Python, Node, Rust, or C++. • Comfortable working 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 issues in real-world environments. • Strong communicator who can collaborate directly with customer engineering teams and internal product teams. • Comfortable operating in fast-paced, low-process environments where ownership and initiative matter. • Excited to work hands-on with customers solving complex technical implementation challenges. • Experience with WebRTC, real-time media systems, or telephony/SIP infrastructure. • Familiarity with voice AI, conversational agents, or AI infrastructure. • Experience working in customer-facing engineering roles such as Solutions Engineer, Field Engineer, or Forward Deployed Engineer. • Experience contributing to open-source projects or developer ecosystems. • Previous experience building with or integrating LiveKit. • OUR COMMITMENTS TO YOU
Responsibilities
• Work directly with customer engineering teams to design and implement real-time applications built on LiveKit. • Design scalable architectures for voice AI, real-time media, and developer platform use cases. • Build prototype integrations, reference implementations, and sample applications to accelerate customer development. • Help customers navigate SDKs, APIs, infrastructure, and deployment strategies for production systems. • Debug and troubleshoot complex technical issues in production environments. • Lead technical workshops and architecture sessions with developers and product teams. • Translate customer needs into technical insights that inform product and platform development. • Partner with Product and Engineering to improve developer experience, documentation, and tooling. • Contribute code, examples, or improvements to LiveKit’s open-source ecosystem when helpful. • Act as a trusted advisor helping customers successfully launch and scale applications on LiveKit.
Benefits
• $120K – $250K • Offers Equity • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • Tell us about you and why you're excited to apply to this specific role at LiveKit! • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. • Black or African American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran
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