Senior Product Engineer

LiveKit is hiring a Senior Product Engineer for a remote role. It pays $135k-$300k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on LiveKit.

Level's read on this job

Works on AI ●●●○ is how Level rates this role: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
This is listed as a remote role.
The posting mentions OpenAI, TypeScript and Go among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a senior role.
LiveKit has 29 other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

Build developer-facing web surfaces, CLI tools, and observability features for an AI agent infrastructure platform.

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About LiveKit

LiveKit is building the infrastructure layer for the agentic era of computing. Our platform gives developers everything they need to build, test, deploy, scale, and observe AI agents in production. Founded in 2021, LiveKit powers voice and agentic AI applications for OpenAI, Salesforce, Spotify, Meta, and tens of thousands of other developers, collectively facilitating billions of calls each year.

About This Role

We're hiring Product Engineers to build the surfaces developers use to ship agentic applications on LiveKit. Most of this work lives on the web and in our CLI: the dashboards, tooling, observability, and debug surfaces that turn LiveKit from a set of APIs into a platform people love to build on.

This is a core engineering role. You'll write a lot of production code in TypeScript and Go, work end to end across the stack, and ship features that real developers depend on. We expect strong technical chops and a high bar for craft.

What sets a Product Engineer apart at LiveKit is product instinct. You think about the shape of the experience, not just the correctness of the code. The things you ship are built from deep knowledge of actual customer use-cases, and you continuously measure, seek feedback, and iterate to maximize your impact.

This role can be based remotely or in our SF HQ, where you'll be part of a collaborative in-office culture!

You'll Thrive at LiveKit if You

are genuinely excited about agentic and AI-native applications and want to build the infrastructure that makes them possible
love building for developers and have strong opinions about what good DX looks like
write code that's fast, reliable, and right-sized to the problem
own what you ship you feel it when something you built isn't working for users
move fast without losing rigor on the details that matter
can explain complex technical concepts clearly to other engineers
pick up new languages, tools, and domains quickly

What You'll Do

Build and ship core product surfaces end to end, primarily on the web and in our CLI
Design and implement features that make LiveKit feel obvious and powerful to the developers using it
Engage directly with developers and customers to understand how they're building with LiveKit and where the rough edges are
Move quickly from prototype to production, iterating on real usage rather than guesses
Contribute to technical and product decisions that shape what we build next

Who You Are

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: you weigh user experience, trade-offs, and value alongside technical implementation
Comfort with ambiguity. You can take a vague problem, frame it, and start shipping.
Excellent written and verbal communication
Genuine excitement about agentic AI, voice, and the next generation of developer platforms

Nice to Have

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, and observability) at scale
Open source contributions, especially on infra or developer tools
Background in realtime, audio/video, or AI tooling
Based in or willing to spend time in the San Francisco Bay Area

Our Commitment to You

An opportunity to build something truly impactful to the world
Contribute to open source alongside world-class engineers
Competitive salary and equity package
Health, dental, and vision benefits
Flexible vacation policy

LiveKit is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable law. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact recruiting@livekit.io.

How we rate this

Senior Product Engineer at LiveKit rates 70 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Senior Product Engineer is an open job at LiveKit.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The listed salary is $135k-$300k a year.
The role is based in North America and is marked remote.
The job was posted on May 23, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by LiveKit. Apply on LiveKit

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Tell me about a project where observability was part of your work. What did you do?

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