[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. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own and improve the media pipeline and services surrounding the real-time core, ensuring effective media ingestion and export for voice agents.ResponsibilitiesDesign, build, and optimize the media pipeline and services around LiveKit's real-time coreBuild distributed systems that ingest media from heterogeneous sources into the LiveKit ecosystem, and export LiveKit sessions to wherever they need to goShape LiveKit's strategy on media features, formats, and codecsChoose the algorithms and implementation approaches that strike the right tradeoffs between performance, reliability, and qualitySupport and advise other teams building on top of media services, and raise the quality bar for the systems they depend onHelp maintain operational excellenceSkillsExperience building and operating production media processing services at scaleStrong grasp of distributed systems — asynchronous pipelines, parallel processing, and synchronizationAbility to break complex systems into clear componentsOwnership of work end-to-end, from design through implementation, deployment, and iterationComfort with ambiguity, evolving requirements, and unfamiliar problem domainsValue clear communication and building systems that others enjoy working withExperience with media pipelines, systems, and algorithmsFamiliarity with technologies including Golang, GStreamer, FFmpeg, libavcodec, WebRTC, RTMP, WHIP, HLS, H264, VP9, AV1, ISO/MP4, CMAF, VMAFBenefitsOffers EquityHealth, dental, and vision benefitsFlexible vacation policyCompany OverviewLiveKit 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 SponsorshipLiveKit 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.