Senior Software Engineer, Media Backend
LiveKitReal-time Communication company
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Index Ventures
Salesforce Ventures
Altimeter Capital
Redpoint Ventures
Hanabi Capital
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Design and optimize media pipeline and services for real-time core.
- •We're looking for a Senior/Staff Engineer to own and improve the media pipeline and services that surround the real-time core: the systems that bring media into LiveKit sessions and get it back out again.
- •Key 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 Requirements 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
Required skills
Go
Domain expertise
ai
Benefits & perks
Competitive salary and equity package, Health, dental, and vision benefits, Flexible vacation policy
Tech stack
Go