Forward Deployed Engineer

LiveKit, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Remote, Ireland

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Work directly with customers building real-time communication and voice AI applications on the LiveKit platform.
• Partner closely with customers' engineering teams to design systems, prototype solutions, and solve complex technical challenges as teams move from experimentation to production.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to surface insights from customer implementations and help shape the future of the LiveKit platform.
• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• An opportunity to build something truly impactful to the world.
• Contribute to open source alongside world-class engineers.
• Competitive salary and equity package.
• Health, dental, and vision benefits.
• Flexible vacation policy.

Skills & Technologies

Python

Rust

Node.js

Remote

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About LiveKit, Inc.

LiveKit provides open-source and cloud infrastructure for real-time audio and video applications, offering SDKs, APIs, and managed services that enable developers to embed scalable WebRTC-based communication into apps with features such as live streaming, video calls, and AI-driven voice agents.

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