Bilingual Forward Deployed Engineer - Spanish/English

LiveKit; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity package

Health, dental, and vision benefits

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

LiveKit in Austin, TX is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with customers building real-time audio, video, and AI applications on the LiveKit platform. The role blends engineering, architecture, and customer implementation, designing scalable solutions and guiding deployments.

You'll collaborate with client teams, lead architecture sessions, and develop reference implementations to demonstrate best practices.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Fluent in both Spanish and English (written and spoken)

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

Backend engineering

Go

Python

Node.js

Rust

C++

Job description

LiveKit in Austin, TX is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with customers building real-time audio, video, and AI applications on the LiveKit platform. The role blends engineering, architecture, and customer implementation, designing scalable solutions and guiding deployments.

You'll collaborate with client teams, lead architecture sessions, and develop reference implementations to demonstrate best practices.