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LiveKitLiveKitUnited States

Senior Software Engineer, Media Backend

Senior/Staff Engineer to own and improve the media pipeline and services around LiveKit's real-time core, handling ingest, export, recordings, format/codec handling, and distributed media processing at scale.

120k – 250k/yr
Remote5+ YOEBackend Engineering

About the role

What You’ll Do

  • 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

Technologies

Golang, GStreamer, FFmpeg, libavcodec, WebRTC, RTMP, WHIP, HLS, H264, VP9, AV1, ISO/MP4, CMAF, VMAF

Who You Are

  • Experience building and operating production media processing services at scale
  • Strong grasp of distributed systems — asynchronous pipelines, parallel processing, and synchronization — and can break complex systems into clear components
  • Own work end-to-end, from design through implementation, deployment, and iteration
  • Comfortable with ambiguity, evolving requirements, and unfamiliar problem domains
  • Value clear communication and building systems that others enjoy working with

Skills

GoGstreamerFfmpegLibavcodecWebrtcRtmpHlsH.264Vp9Av1CmafVmafDistributed Systems

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