Forward Deployed Engineer
Full-time
LiveKit
Role Description
LiveKit is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) 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.
- Partner closely with customers to design systems, prototype solutions, and solve complex technical challenges as teams move from experimentation to production.
- Work alongside customers' engineering teams to help them successfully deploy and scale applications built on LiveKit.
- Design architectures, build integrations, debug production issues, and develop reference implementations that demonstrate best practices.
- Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering to surface insights from customer implementations and help shape the future of the LiveKit platform.
- Your mission: make it seamless for developers to build and scale real-time audio, video, and AI applications on LiveKit.
Qualifications
- 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.
- 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.
Requirements
- Experience with WebRTC, real-time media systems, or telephony/SIP infrastructure (Nice to Have).
- Familiarity with voice AI, conversational agents, or AI infrastructure (Nice to Have).
- Experience working in customer-facing engineering roles such as Solutions Engineer, Field Engineer, or Forward Deployed Engineer (Nice to Have).
- Experience contributing to open-source projects or developer ecosystems (Nice to Have).
- Previous experience building with or integrating LiveKit (Nice to Have).
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.
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