Remote Real-Time Systems Engineer for Developer Platforms

LiveKit; Ireland; On-site; EUR 153,000 - 274,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity package

Health, dental, and vision benefits

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

LiveKit is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with customers, designing real-time applications on the LiveKit platform. You will partner with customer engineering teams to design architectures, prototype solutions, and implement production deployments, helping clients scale voice, video, and AI workloads.

You’ll thrive by solving complex technical challenges, leading workshops, and translating customer needs into actionable insights for product and platform teams.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

Go

Python

Node

Rust

C++

Job description

LiveKit is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with customers, designing real-time applications on the LiveKit platform. You will partner with customer engineering teams to design architectures, prototype solutions, and implement production deployments, helping clients scale voice, video, and AI workloads.

You’ll thrive by solving complex technical challenges, leading workshops, and translating customer needs into actionable insights for product and platform teams.