
LiveKit's network is optimized for ultra-low latency, extreme resiliency, and massive scale.

LiveKit's network is optimized for ultra-low latency, extreme resiliency, and massive scale.
What they do: Open-source WebRTC SFU and realtime developer platform for low-latency audio, video, data, and AI-native agents
Product options: Self-hosted server and LiveKit Cloud (managed, globally distributed) with identical APIs
Founding: Founded in 2021 by Russ (Russell) d’Sa and David Zhao
Headcount: Approximately 109 employees
Recent financing: $100M round (Jan 2026) led by Index Ventures at a $1B valuation
Low-latency, resilient, and scalable realtime audio/video/data infrastructure and tooling for building AI-native voice/video agents.
2021
Technology, Information and Internet
$100M
Valuation reported at $1 billion
$7M (reported)
“Includes participation from Index Ventures, Altimeter Capital, Hanabi Capital, Redpoint Ventures, plus prominent individual backers such as Jeff Dean, Elad Gil, Amjad Masad, Guillermo Rauch, Garrett Camp, and Ev Williams”
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LiveKit is revolutionizing the AI landscape by providing the essential network infrastructure that powers multimodal AI interfaces, enabling seamless audio and visual interactions. Founded in 2021, LiveKit has rapidly grown to support over 3 Billion calls annually, 100,000+ developers globally, and industry giants like OpenAI, Character AI, Spotify, and Meta.
You'll thrive at LiveKit if you:
The best way to impress us is with thoughtful Issues and/or PRs on our Github repos 😊
LiveKit is on a mission to help developers create and scale real-time experiences. We are hiring a Software Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer to help manage and scale the core components of the LiveKit infrastructure. Reliability and performance of our globally distributed architecture is critical and a top priority.
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Compensation Range: $120K - $250K
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