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Design and implement real-time audio, video, and voice AI applications with customer engineering teams. Build integrations, prototypes, reference implementations, and scalable architectures; support SDKs, APIs, infrastructure, and deployment strategies; troubleshoot production issues; lead technical workshops; and provide customer insights to Product and Engineering. Contribute to LiveKit’s developer experience, tooling, documentation, and open-source ecosystem. Fluency in Spanish and English is required.

Design developer tools for testing, evaluating, debugging, and observing AI voice agents. Translate dense real-time data into clear interfaces, create AI-native interaction patterns, prototype in code, collaborate with engineers, and contribute to design systems for technical debugging workflows.

Own 8–10 full-cycle technical recruiting searches for engineering roles, partnering with hiring managers, sourcing passive candidates, building talent pipelines, closing senior and staff-level hires, and improving recruiting systems and candidate experience. The role requires strong technical recruiting expertise across infrastructure, backend, developer tools, open source, or AI, plus the ability to implement thoughtful AI-enabled recruiting practices.

Run US and international payroll end to end, including payroll tax filings, multi-state compliance, PEO/EOR management, reconciliations, and month-end close support. Build payroll calendars, controls, processes, and documentation as payroll moves into Finance. Partner with People, Talent, and Accounting, support Carta equity administration, answer payroll questions, and handle auditor requests. Serve as the internal subject-matter expert while identifying tax, legal, and compliance risks.

Own and scale LiveKit’s vulnerability management and security operations program. Responsibilities include selecting and operationalizing scanning tools, triaging vulnerabilities, assigning owners, setting remediation SLAs, building remediation dashboards, automating compliance evidence collection, and developing automation to reduce manual security work. The role partners closely with engineering and compliance teams to prioritize risk and accelerate remediation.

Own infrastructure security for LiveKit’s production platform. Map cloud security posture, prioritize and remediate infrastructure risks, harden IAM, secrets, networks, tenant isolation, and media storage, and build secure infrastructure-as-code guardrails. Partner with compliance teams on PCI-DSS and ISO 27001 controls and automate audit evidence. The role requires cloud, Kubernetes, Terraform, scripting, and production infrastructure security experience, with AI security and real-time media experience preferred.

Owns LiveKit’s revenue accounting function, including ASC 606 policy development, monthly revenue close, deferred revenue and contract balances, external audit support, billing-to-revenue reconciliation, order-to-cash governance, collections, and commission capitalization under ASC 340-40. The role also reviews complex deal structures, documents technical accounting conclusions, and builds scalable automated revenue processes for usage-based and consumption revenue.

Own the product organization’s operating system, including planning cadence, roadmap management, goal tracking, reporting, product development standards, launch readiness, customer insight systems, PM onboarding, training, tools, and team practices. Partner with product leadership, data, marketing, sales, success, and engineering to improve team effectiveness, visibility, and decision-making as the company scales.

Own and evolve LiveKit’s developer-facing website by building high-performance web experiences, reusable brand components, motion systems, and launch pages. Translate brand and design concepts into polished production code, maintain strong performance budgets, and collaborate closely with designers, marketers, and engineers. The role emphasizes front-end engineering, animation, interaction design, speed, and self-directed delivery.

Lead brand design across campaigns, events, digital, print, out-of-home, presentations, environmental graphics, and physical goods. Develop creative concepts through production, extend LiveKit’s identity across new formats, and maintain a high bar for craft and consistency. Partner with marketing and sales to turn ambiguous briefs into shipped work quickly. Use AI tools throughout the creative process and contribute strong systems thinking, visual direction, and execution.