[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Media Backend
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LiveKit is building the infrastructure layer for the voice-driven era of computing, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own and improve the media pipeline and services surrounding their real-time core. The role involves designing and optimizing systems that manage media ingestion and exports, impacting every LiveKit-powered voice agent.
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
Skills
- 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
- Ownership of work end-to-end, from design through implementation, deployment, and iteration
- Comfort with ambiguity, evolving requirements, and unfamiliar problem domains
- Value clear communication and building systems that others enjoy working with
- Experience with media pipelines, systems, and algorithms
- Programming fundamentals, judgment, and the ability to learn quickly
- Reasoning from first principles
- Ability to shape technical direction through implementation
- Leave the codebase better than you found it
- Experience with Golang
- Experience with GStreamer
- Experience with FFmpeg
- Experience with libavcodec
- Experience with WebRTC
- Experience with RTMP
- Experience with WHIP
- Experience with HLS
- Experience with H264
- Experience with VP9
- Experience with AV1
- Experience with ISO/MP4
- Experience with CMAF
- Experience with VMAF
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Health, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible vacation policy
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