Requirements

6+ years of engineering experience, with meaningful time spent shipping product end-to-end
Strong coding skills in TypeScript, with fluency in modern web frameworks; comfort with Go is a plus
A track record of building user-facing software that developers or technical users actually adopted
Strong product sense: ability to weigh user experience, trade-offs, and value alongside technical implementation
Comfort with ambiguity and ability to take vague problems, frame them, and start shipping
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Genuine excitement about agentic AI, voice, and next-generation developer platforms

Nice to Haves

Experience building developer platforms, SDKs, CLIs, or APIs as the primary product
Experience working with and operating production distributed systems (Kubernetes-based deployments, analytics/telemetry, observability) at scale
Open source contributions, especially on infrastructure or developer tools
Background in realtime, audio/video, or AI tooling
Based in or willing to spend time in the San Francisco Bay Area

Build and ship core product surfaces end to end, primarily on the web and in the CLI
Design and implement features that make LiveKit intuitive and powerful for developers
Engage directly with developers and customers to understand usage and identify pain points
Move quickly from prototype to production, iterating based on real user feedback
Contribute to technical and product decisions guiding future development