[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Media Backend

Work from home Full-time role Hiring

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

Company Overview

LiveKit provides a cloud platform that enables developers to build, deploy, and manage real-time communication and AI-driven applications. It was founded in 2021, and is headquartered in San Jose, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://livekit.com/.

Company H1B Sponsorship

LiveKit has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2026, 3 in 2025. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Media Backend

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