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Forward Deployed Engineer

LiveKit· COGs
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Remote$180k - $320kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

LiveKit seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with customers building real-time communication and voice AI applications on the LiveKit platform. The role sits at the intersection of engineering, architecture, and customer implementation, partnering with customers to design systems, prototype solutions, and solve complex technical challenges as teams move from experimentation to production.

Responsibilities

  • Work directly (remotely or on-site when necessary) 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

Qualifications

  • Strong engineering background with 7+ 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

Skills

Required:Backend or infrastructure engineeringGoCloud infrastructure
Nice to have:PythonNodeRustCustomer-facing engineering

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity package
  • Health, dental, and vision benefits
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Opportunity to build something impactful and contribute to open source
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Open source agent framework and cloud platform for apps that see, hear, and speak.

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