Product Engineer at LiveKit

Department: R&D

Compensation

$135,000 – $300,000/yr

Setup: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco, California
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Aug 4, 2026

Description

LiveKit is hiring a Product Engineer to build and ship developer-facing product surfaces for robotics applications, primarily through web dashboards and a CLI. The role involves end-to-end product and engineering work in TypeScript and Go, customer and developer feedback, rapid prototyping, observability, and technical decision-making. It is based in the company's San Francisco headquarters and requires at least six years of engineering experience, strong TypeScript and web-framework skills, and experience with user-facing developer software.

Required Skills

TypeScript
Go
Web frameworks
Dashboards
Observability
Product sense

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 6+ years of engineering experience with meaningful product-end-to-end shipping experience
Experience building user-facing software adopted by developers or technical users
Experience with dashboards and interfaces for robotics applications
Preferred Qualifications: Comfort with Go
Experience building developer platforms, SDKs, CLIs, or APIs
Experience with production distributed systems, Kubernetes, analytics, telemetry, and observability
Hands-on hardware or robotics experience
Open source contributions in infrastructure or developer tools
Background in real-time, audio/video, or AI tooling

About LiveKit

LiveKit

voice, video, and physical AI agents

Its platform includes an open source framework to build and test agents, an inference gateway for TTS, LLM, and STT models, and a cloud platform for deploying and scaling agents. LiveKit Cloud is used to deploy and scale agents; the site reports 300,000+ developers, 3,000,000,000+ calls annually, and 19+ regions globally.

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