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title: 'Solutions Architect at LiveKit'
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# Solutions Architect at LiveKit

- **Company:** LiveKit
- **Location:** United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-25
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/livekit/63cec43b-4627-4494-b70d-cb7f8041a4b1

## Job description

## 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 a Solutions Architect (Pre-Sales) to be the technical partner to the engineers and enterprises building on LiveKit. You'll work alongside an account executive to understand what a customer is trying to build, design the right architecture, and bring it to life with live demos and proofs-of-concept — guiding teams from first conversation to production. This role is ideal for someone who loves to build, is energized by talking with other engineers, and takes pride in turning a hard technical problem into something that just works. Real-time voice and video is visceral — latency, quality, and reliability are felt, not read about — so the best conversations include something live. You'll collaborate closely with our Sales, Engineering, Product teams to win technical decisions and to make sure what you hear in the field informs how we build.

## YOU'LL THRIVE HERE IF YOU:

- love to build and solve the most challenging customer problems with LiveKit
- have a curious mind with a continuous desire to learn and improve
- enjoy demoing and presenting, whether to a room of engineer, to a CTO or at a conference
- have a team first mentally, seeking to lift others around you as you progress in your career

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Partner with an account executive as the technical lead on strategic deals — from discovery and architecture design through demos, POCs, and technical decisions
- Advise customers on cloud architecture and deployment across self-hosted and LiveKit Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Build live demos and reference applications — voice agents, video pipelines, telephony integrations — tailored to each customer's use case, and reusable by the wider team
- Scope and run proofs-of-concept against clear, shared success criteria, guiding customers all the way to production
- Reason with customers about connectivity, infrastructure, and end-to-end latency to design for scale and reliability
- Create technical content — blog posts, guides, webinars, and conference talks — that helps developers and enterprises build with LiveKit
- Act as the technical enabler for your region's pod, and share field insight with Product and Engineering to help shape the roadmap

## WHO YOU ARE

- 4+ years in solutions architecture, sales engineering, or a customer-facing engineering role (or equivalent hands-on engineering experience with strong customer instincts)
- Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure) — you can architect, deploy, and debug real applications
- Comfortable with the modern deployment toolchain: containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and networking fundamentals (load balancing, DNS, firewalls/NAT)
- Able to reason about connectivity, infrastructure, and latency end to end — how architecture, network path, compute, co-location, and model choice shape the AI agentic experiences of today
- Strong programming ability in at least one of our core SDK languages — Python, TypeScript/Node, or Go
- A clear communicator who can demo, present, and write for technical audiences

## NICE TO HAVE

- Working knowledge of real-time media protocols and their latency/quality trade-offs (WebRTC, RTP/SRTP, WebSockets)
- Familiarity with the AI voice stack: STT/TTS providers, LLM integration, speech-to-speech models, turn detection, and telephony/SIP
- Experience speaking at meetups or conferences, or a track record of technical writing or open-source contributions

## 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
- 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.

## About LiveKit

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: LiveKit provides an open-source framework and cloud platform for building, deploying, and scaling voice, video, and physical AI agents.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Jose, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: David Zhao (Co-Founder and CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Developer Infrastructure, Real-Time Communications (RTC), Voice AI, Video AI, Robotics
- **Target customers**: B2B; Developers, AI labs, robotics teams, and enterprises (including Fortune 500 companies) building real-time multimodal AI applications.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To build the infrastructure for the voice-driven era of computing, making it possible for every developer to build AI that can interact with the world in real time.

## Products & Services
- **LiveKit Cloud**: A hosted, managed platform for deploying and scaling AI agents globally. It provides a global real-time media server network with sub-1000ms latency and 99.99% uptime, handling millions of concurrent calls. Includes telephony integration (phone numbers, SIP), full-stack observability, and an inference gateway for TTS, LLM, and STT models.
- **LiveKit Agents Framework**: An open-source, high-level framework (Python/Node.js) for building AI agents. It includes tools for automatic turn detection, interruption handling, voice activity detection (VAD), and a plugin system for connecting to various AI providers.
- **LiveKit Server (Open Source)**: The core open-source WebRTC Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU) that orchestrates real-time communication. Can be self-hosted or used with LiveKit Cloud.
- **Integration Services**: Telephony (PSTN/SIP connectivity), Egress (recording and streaming), and Ingress (external media streams).
- **Client SDKs**: Real-time SDKs for Web, Swift, Android, Flutter, React Native, Unity, Python, Node.js, Rust, C++, and ESP32.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed. Total funding is $181M.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $181M. Over 2.5 billion calls powered annually. Over 300,000 developers use the platform.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Index Ventures (led Series C), Altimeter Capital (led Series A), Redpoint (led Seed). Angel investors include Elad Gil, Jeff Dean (Chief Scientist, Google), Aravind Srinivas (CEO, Perplexity), Guillermo Rauch (CEO, Vercel), Amjad Masad (CEO, Replit), Mati Staniszewski (CEO, ElevenLabs), Erik Bernhardsson (CEO, Modal), Logan Kilpatrick (Product Lead, Google DeepMind), Rohan Anil (Researcher, Anthropic), Garrett Camp (Founder, Uber), Ev Williams (Founder, Twitter), and Justin Kan (Founder, Twitch). Key customer: OpenAI (built ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice on LiveKit Cloud).
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid headcount growth (+7.1% monthly). Raised a $100M Series C in January 2026. Expanded from a WebRTC livestreaming project to the default infrastructure layer for voice AI. Operates in 12 countries. SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA compliant.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-Source Foundation**: A large and active open-source community (over 300,000 developers) creates a strong ecosystem and lowers the barrier to entry.
- **Full-Stack Platform**: Provides everything from the media server and client SDKs to the agent framework, inference gateway, and telephony integration, offering a unified, end-to-end solution.
- **Proven at Scale**: Powers billions of calls annually for the world’s leading AI companies, including OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode, demonstrating extreme reliability and performance.
- **Global Infrastructure**: A global network of media servers ensures low latency (<1000ms) and high uptime (99.99%) for real-time voice and video applications.
- **Enterprise-Grade Compliance**: SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, and GDPR compliant, making it suitable for regulated industries.

## Strategic Focus
- **Voice-First AI Infrastructure**: Doubling down on being the default platform for the emerging voice-driven computing paradigm.
- **Expanding the Agent Ecosystem**: Continuously improving the Agents framework, adding new plugins, and supporting more AI models and hardware (including robotics).
- **Scaling the Cloud Platform**: Investing in global infrastructure to handle increasing demand and maintain performance as usage grows.
- **Enterprise Adoption**: Targeting Fortune 500 companies and regulated industries by emphasizing compliance, security, and reliability.

## Why Work Here
- **High-Impact Work**: Build the core infrastructure powering the next generation of AI applications used by millions. Employees work on challenging problems in distributed systems, real-time media, and AI.
- **Strong Engineering Culture**: A technical team with a high density of senior engineers. The tech stack is modern and includes Go, Rust, Python, TypeScript, WebRTC, Kubernetes, and various AI/ML tools.
- **Remote-First with Hubs**: The company is remote-first but has a hybrid hub in San Francisco. Employees are distributed across 12 countries including the US, Canada, Germany, UK, and India.
- **Top-Tier Investors & Advisors**: Backed by the best investors and advised by leaders from Google, OpenAI, and other top AI companies, providing a strong network and strategic direction.
- **Growth Trajectory**: The company is in a high-growth phase (recent $100M Series C, rapid hiring), offering significant career growth opportunities.
- **Culture**: Described as having a 5.0/5.0 employer rating on LinkedIn, with high marks for work-life balance, compensation, and career development. The company values "crazy ones" who want to build the future.

## Sources
1. [livekit.com](https://livekit.com/)
2. [livekit.com/about](https://livekit.com/about)
3. [livekit.com/careers](https://livekit.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/livekitco](https://www.linkedin.com/company/livekitco)
5. [docs.livekit.io](https://docs.livekit.io/intro/about/)

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