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Meet Livekit

LiveKit is an open-source framework and cloud platform for building real-time voice, video, and physical AI applications. Founded in 2021, it began as WebRTC infrastructure for livestreaming and video conferencing and evolved into a developer platform for multimodal AI agents. LiveKit provides APIs, SDKs, agent frameworks, telephony, inference integrations, deployment, testing, observability, and managed cloud infrastructure. The company says more than 300,000 developers and teams use its technology, with production users including OpenAI, Salesforce, NVIDIA, Oracle, SAP, Spotify, Skydio, Retell, Decagon, Cresta, and HeyGen. Its infrastructure is designed to handle low-latency interactions between people, devices, and AI models.View more

LiveKit is an open-source framework and cloud platform for building real-time voice, video, and physical AI applications. Founded in 2021, it began as WebRTC infrastructure for livestreaming and video conferencing and evolved into a developer platform for multimodal AI agents. LiveKit provides APIs, SDKs, agent frameworks, telephony, inference integrations, deployment, testing, observability, and managed cloud infrastructure. The company says more than 300,000 developers and teams use its technology, with production users including OpenAI, Salesforce, NVIDIA, Oracle, SAP, Spotify, Skydio, Retell, Decagon, Cresta, and HeyGen. Its infrastructure is designed to handle low-latency interactions between people, devices, and AI models.

Founded
2021
Company size
51-200 employees
Company stage
Not known
Headquarters
San Jose, USA

Why work here

LiveKit offers candidates the chance to work on technically demanding real-time infrastructure spanning distributed systems, WebRTC, voice AI, video, robotics, telephony, and multimodal agents. Its open-source technology is used by more than 300,000 developers and teams and supports production workloads for companies including OpenAI, Salesforce, NVIDIA, SAP, Spotify, and robotics companies. LiveKit raised a $100 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation in January 2026, providing significant financial backing for continued expansion. The company is actively hiring across distributed systems, agents, product engineering, security, research, product, and developer-facing roles, including many remote positions. Candidates should also weigh the pace and expectations typical of a rapidly growing infrastructure startup.Read more

LiveKit offers candidates the chance to work on technically demanding real-time infrastructure spanning distributed systems, WebRTC, voice AI, video, robotics, telephony, and multimodal agents. Its open-source technology is used by more than 300,000 developers and teams and supports production workloads for companies including OpenAI, Salesforce, NVIDIA, SAP, Spotify, and robotics companies. LiveKit raised a $100 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation in January 2026, providing significant financial backing for continued expansion. The company is actively hiring across distributed systems, agents, product engineering, security, research, product, and developer-facing roles, including many remote positions. Candidates should also weigh the pace and expectations typical of a rapidly growing infrastructure startup.

Industry
AI Infrastructure and Real-Time Communications
Open jobs
30 open jobs

Tech stack

Go

Programming Language

Pion WebRTC

Real-Time Communications

WebRTC

Real-Time Communications

Kubernetes

Container Orchestration

Docker

Containers

Python

Programming Language

Node.js

Runtime

Rust

Programming Language

C++

Programming Language

JavaScript

Programming Language

SIP

Telephony

Key people

2 people
Russ d'SaCo-Founder and CEOView bio

Co-founder and CEO of LiveKit. Before LiveKit, d'Sa worked in product at Medium and engineering at Twitter and 23andMe, and co-founded Evie Labs, which was acquired by Medium. He attended Y Combinator in 2007 and earned BS and MS degrees in computer science from UC Davis. He co-founded LiveKit with David Zhao in 2021 to build open-source real-time communications infrastructure.

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David ZhaoCo-Founder and CTOView bio

Co-founder and CTO of LiveKit. Zhao previously co-founded and led Evie Labs, founded ZumoDrive, served as Director of Engineering at Motorola Mobility, worked at Amazon, and was a Senior Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund. He attended the University of Washington and Y Combinator. At LiveKit he leads technology development around WebRTC, distributed real-time infrastructure, SDKs, and AI agent systems.

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Latest company news

3 stories

Introducing the LiveKit Startup Program: Your whole stack, on us

LiveKit

LiveKit launched a startup program providing eligible early-stage companies building voice, video, or physical AI products with LiveKit Cloud and partner-service credits.

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Introducing LiveKit Connectors: voice agents where people already talk

LiveKit

LiveKit introduced Connectors to bridge LiveKit rooms directly with communication platforms, initially supporting Twilio Programmable Voice and WhatsApp Business Calling.

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LiveKit's Series C: towards the voice-driven era of computing

LiveKit

LiveKit announced a $100 million Series C led by Index Ventures at a $1 billion valuation, with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Hanabi Capital, Altimeter, and Redpoint Ventures.

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Jobs at Livekit

30 open roles
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