--- title: 'Staff Developer Advocate, Community & Events at LiveKit' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-developer-advocate-community-events-livekit-san-francisco-1r5ycz1pg1kx' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-06' --- # Staff Developer Advocate, Community & Events at LiveKit - **Company:** LiveKit - **Location:** San Francisco, CA - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-07-03 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/livekit/8ce9b064-e20b-4c71-8c53-385ea89299ae ## Job description ## ABOUT LIVEKIT LiveKit is building the infrastructure layer for the voice-driven era of computing. Our platform gives developers everything they need to build, test, deploy, scale, and observe agents in production. Founded in 2021, LiveKit powers voice AI applications for OpenAI, xAI, Salesforce, Coursera, Spotify, and thousands of others, collectively facilitating billions of calls each year. ## ABOUT YOU LiveKit is seeking a Staff Developer Advocate to help grow our presence and deepen engagement with developers, with a strong focus on events and community building. You’ll be the face of LiveKit in the Bay Area and beyond, driving awareness with developers who may not yet know us, and creating experiences that inspire them to build with real-time audio and video. This role is a hybrid of content creation and event execution: you’ll organize and host events, speak at meetups and conferences, and also create supporting content that extends the reach of those activities. You’ll bring back insights from the community—trends, patterns, and narratives that are top of mind for developers—and use them to inform our product, messaging, and broader DevRel strategy. ## WHAT YOU’LL DO - Drive awareness of LiveKit with new developer audiences, especially in the Bay Area where there is a significant opportunity to grow our presence. - Plan, host, and participate in events including meetups, hackathons, developer workshops, and conferences. - Partner with Marketing to amplify events through digital channels, ensuring broader reach and sustained impact. - Create content from events (recaps, demos, tutorials, blogs, social posts) to expand engagement beyond the room. - Serve as a feedback loop for the company, bringing back developer perspectives, industry trends, and emerging patterns to inform our product and community strategy. - Represent LiveKit on stage and in community forums, speaking authentically to developer audiences about our technology. - Help experiment with new event formats and engagement tactics, testing what resonates most with our audience. - Collaborate cross-functionally with DevRel, PMM, and Product to ensure developer narratives are consistent, compelling, and authentic. ## WHO YOU ARE - 2+ years of experience in Developer Advocacy, Developer Relations, or Technical Evangelism, with a strong emphasis on events and community engagement. - Comfortable being outward-facing—you enjoy speaking to groups, hosting sessions, and building relationships in developer communities. - Strong technical communication skills; you can explain complex concepts in clear, engaging ways across presentations and written content. - Hands-on technical background (comfortable writing code samples, running demos, or building prototypes). - Experience planning and executing developer events (e.g., meetups, hackathons, workshops, or conference tracks). - Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with willingness to travel for conferences and events. - Strong collaborator who can work cross-functionally with Marketing, Product, and Engineering. - Curious and empathetic—you love learning what matters most to developers and bringing those insights back to the team. ## OUR COMMITMENTS TO YOU - An opportunity to build something truly impactful to the world - Competitive salary and equity package - Work anywhere in the world - Health, dental, and vision benefits - Flexible vacation policy READY TO APPLY? If you're passionate about championing developers in the realm of real-time communications and want to make a significant impact at a high-growth company, we'd love to hear from you. At LiveKit, your work as a Developer Advocate will be instrumental in our growth and success, bridging the gap between our technology and the developers who use it. 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. 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