Senior Software Engineer, Media Backend

🕒 May 23

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LiveKit

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2020

🔌 API

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

📡 Telecommunications

💰 Venture Round on 2022-09

API • Artificial Intelligence • Telecommunications

LiveKit is a platform designed to facilitate real-time AI and multimedia communications. It enables the instantaneous transmission of audio and video between language models (LLMs) and users, creating real-time multimodal experiences. LiveKit provides tools for developing voice AI, robotics, and livestreaming applications, with ultra-low latency and high resilience. It supports integration with telephony networks, simulating human conversation with advanced features like interruption handling and turn-taking cue detection. The platform is geared towards developers, offering SDK support across all major platforms, allowing applications to be deployed and scaled efficiently. LiveKit is open-source under Apache 2. 0 and offers robust security measures, including end-to-end encryption and compliance with GDPR, SOC2 Type 2, CCPA, and HIPAA.

📋 Description

• Design, build, and optimize the media pipeline and services around LiveKit's real-time core • Build distributed systems that ingest media from heterogeneous sources into the LiveKit ecosystem, and export LiveKit sessions to wherever they need to go • Shape LiveKit's strategy on media features, formats, and codecs • Choose the algorithms and implementation approaches that strike the right tradeoffs between performance, reliability, and quality • Support and advise other teams building on top of media services, and raise the quality bar for the systems they depend on • Help maintain operational excellence

🎯 Requirements

• Experience building and operating production media processing services at scale • Strong grasp of distributed systems — asynchronous pipelines, parallel processing, and synchronization • Own your work end-to-end, from design through implementation, deployment, and iteration • Comfortable with ambiguity, evolving requirements, and unfamiliar problem domains • Value clear communication and building systems that others enjoy working with

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity package • Health, dental, and vision benefits • Flexible vacation policy