LiveKit
Backend Engineer, Real-Time Media
US, Canada +2
UTC-10 to UTC+12 $135k to $300k per year Full time
Mid level
- Where you can live
- North America
- Working hours
- Overlap with UTC-10 to UTC+12
- Salary
- USD 135,000 to 300,000 per year
- Posted
- September 16, 2026
Summary from the posting
Every call, stream, and agent conversation running on LiveKit passes through our real-time media backend. It is the layer that ingests, transforms, and delivers audio and video at a scale of billions of calls a year , and it is the foundation the rest of the product is built on.
As a Backend Engineer on the real-time media team, you'll own real time media distribution end to end: the interaction with real time clients, the distributed mesh allowing fast and reliable media distribution all over the world, and the new systems that customer-facing features depend on.
This is a short summary. The full description, requirements and the application form are on LiveKit's own career page.