LiveKit
Senior Software Engineer, Media Backend
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Publicada23 de mai. de 2026
Países elegíveis1 país aceito
Sinal de senioridadeSenior
Modelo de trabalhoRemoto
Locais aceitos para candidatos
Estados Unidos
Resumo da vaga
Senior Software Engineer, Media Backend
Requisitos e responsabilidades
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You'll thrive at LiveKit if you:
- Care deeply about producing clean, reliable, and practical systems
- Consistently step up to own challenging technical problems
- Are known for figuring things out, even in unfamiliar domains
- Value clear communication and simple, understandable designs
- Like building systems that ship, run in production, and improve over time
What You’ll Do:
- 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
- Technologies include Golang, GStreamer, FFmpeg, libavcodec, WebRTC, RTMP, WHIP, HLS, H264, VP9, AV1, ISO/MP4, CMAF, VMAF
Who You Are:
- You have experience building and operating production media processing services at scale
- You have a strong grasp of distributed systems — asynchronous pipelines, parallel processing, and synchronization — and can break complex systems into clear components
- You own your work end-to-end, from design through implementation, deployment, and iteration
- You're comfortable with ambiguity, evolving requirements, and unfamiliar problem domains
- You value clear communication and building systems that others enjoy working with
We offer
- 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
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