# Senior Software Engineer, Media Backend

**Company:** [LiveKit](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/livekit)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $120k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Go, Gstreamer, Ffmpeg, Libavcodec, Webrtc, Rtmp, Hls, H.264, Vp9, Av1, Cmaf, Vmaf, Distributed Systems
**Posted:** 2026-05-23

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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