LiveKit

Solutions Engineer, Pre-Sales

LiveKit

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $100,000 - $150,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

CloudGoOpen SourcePython

About the role

  • LiveKit is seeking a Sales Engineer to bridge the gap between our technical platform and the customers who build on top of it.
  • This role is perfect for someone who can go deep on technical concepts, while also building trust and clarity in customer conversations.
  • You’ll work closely with Account Executives, Product, and Engineering to help prospects understand our capabilities, design solutions that fit their needs, and guide them through successful adoption.
  • You’ll be the go-to technical expert during the sales process—someone who can whiteboard architectures, prototype integrations, and translate complex requirements into clear, actionable steps.
  • Your mission: make it easy and exciting for customers to build real-time audio/video applications with LiveKit.
  • Partner with Sales to qualify opportunities, understand customer goals, and scope technical solutions.
  • Deliver technical presentations, demos, and workshops that clearly communicate LiveKit’s value.
  • Collaborate with prospects to design architectures for scalable, performant real-time applications.
  • Build prototype integrations or sample code to accelerate evaluation cycles.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor—helping customers navigate SDKs, APIs, infrastructure choices, and best practices.
  • Capture customer feedback and influence product roadmaps alongside Product and Engineering.
  • Maintain a deep, evolving understanding of LiveKit’s platform and the real-time communications ecosystem.
  • Support Account Executives in technical proposal writing, RFP responses, and proof-of-concepts.
  • Provide post-sale handoffs to Customer Success and Solutions Engineering for smooth onboarding.

Requirements

  • Experience with customer-facing roles and the ability to build credibility and trust quickly.
  • Proficient in one or more programming languages (Go, python ideally)
  • Familiar with deploying agents, basic understanding of how client SDK development, APIs, and cloud architectures.
  • 5+ years of experience in sales engineering, solutions architecture, or field development engineer at a B2B SaaS, infrastructure company or B2D (business to developer) .
  • Excellent communicator—able to translate technical concepts for both deeply technical and business-oriented audiences.
  • Comfortable running live demos and technical workshops.
  • Self-starter who thrives in fast-paced, low-process environments.
  • Strong collaboration skills—you can work seamlessly with sales, product, and engineering teams.