Remote Real-Time Platform Engineer

LiveKit; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

LiveKit is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with customers building real-time communication and voice AI applications on the LiveKit platform. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, architecture, and customer implementation.

Forward Deployed Engineers partner closely with customers to design systems, prototype solutions, and solve complex technical challenges as teams move from experimentation to production.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend or infrastructure engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Work directly 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

Job description

LiveKit is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work directly with customers building real-time communication and voice AI applications on the LiveKit platform. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, architecture, and customer implementation.

Forward Deployed Engineers partner closely with customers to design systems, prototype solutions, and solve complex technical challenges as teams move from experimentation to production.