# Backend Engineer, Real-Time Media at LiveKit

- Company: LiveKit
- What the company does: Backed by Index and Redpoint.
- Company website: http://livekit.io/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: North America
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $135K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-31
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/livekit/c4a4b4ac-ee45-4eda-800a-6dfb5a573e6e
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/livekit-backend-engineer-real-time-media/

## About the role

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.

## What they're looking for

- You've built critical real time media systems and pipelines that real customers depended on — you wrote the code, not just the integration
- You know the WebRTC stack from the inside: ICE, DTLS-SRTP, RTP/RTCP, congestion control, SDP negotiation
- You're a strong systems programmer in Go, Rust, C/C++, Java, or C# (Go preferred)
- You design asynchronous and multi-threaded systems, and can debug them under production load
- You communicate clearly and thrive with high individual ownership on a small team

Tags: R&D