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LiveKit

Senior Software Engineer, Media Backend

LiveKit

Senior Software Engineer developing and optimizing media pipeline for voice AI applications at LiveKit. You will build systems that integrate media into LiveKit's real-time platform.

Posted 5/23/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $120,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Distributed Systems

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • 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

What you’ll need
  • 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

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

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Hard Skills & Tools
media pipeline designdistributed systemsmedia processing servicesasynchronous pipelinesparallel processingsynchronizationalgorithm selectionimplementation approachesoperational excellence
Soft Skills
clear communicationproblem-solvingadaptabilitycollaborationquality assurance