Senior Software Engineer, Media Backend
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LiveKitVoice AI
Remote, U.SFull-TimeSenior
Salary$120K - $250K
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- GoWebRTCDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Experience building and operating production media processing services at scale
- Strong grasp of distributed systems — asynchronous pipelines, parallel processing, and synchronization
- Ability to break complex systems into clear components
- Experience owning 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
Responsibilities
- 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
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