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LiveKit · 4 weeks ago

Senior SDK Engineer, Android

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
senioritySenior Level
money$120K/yr - $250K/yr

LiveKit is revolutionizing the AI landscape by providing the essential network infrastructure that powers multimodal AI interfaces. The Senior SDK Engineer will focus on Android and React Native development, owning the Android SDK and guiding its design and implementation while ensuring a smooth developer experience.

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Responsibilities

Own the Android SDK and React Native bindings, becoming the go-to engineer responsible for design, development, and long-term maintenance
Contribute to shared modules that power LiveKit’s multi-language SDK ecosystem
Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth integration, shared standards, and consistent developer experience
Diagnose and solve complex cross-platform performance or reliability issues across Android, React Native, web, and server environments
Improve CI/CD, testing, and release processes across SDKs, strengthening release pipelines and developer tooling
Push the boundaries of real-time performance, optimizing systems for low latency, scalability, and efficiency

Qualification

KotlinReact NativeCI/CDJavaSDK developmentCross-platform developmentProblem-solvingCommunication

Required

Strong engineering fundamentals and experience shipping production-quality code in Kotlin or Java for Android and in React Native
Comfortable moving between languages and toolchains, picking up new technologies quickly as the problem demands
Built or maintained SDKs, APIs, or developer-facing frameworks with an eye for usability and long-term maintainability
Hands-on experience with CI/CD, testing, and release processes in multi-language environments
Collaborative, pragmatic, and communicative, able to work closely with other engineers to solve tough cross-platform challenges

Preferred

Understand real-time systems, multimedia pipelines, or network performance
Worked on cross-platform SDK design or bridging native modules

Benefits

Health, dental, and vision benefits
Flexible vacation policy

Company

LiveKit

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The Realtime Cloud. Build and scale voice and video applications.
dateFounded in 2021
location
San Jose, California, USA
people-size51-200 employees
web-link
https://livekit.io/

H1B Sponsorship

LiveKit has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (3)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$81.3M
Key Investors
Altimeter CapitalRedpoint
2025-04-11Series B· $45M
2024-03-13Series A· $22M
2022-09-06Seed· $7.3M

Leadership Team

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Russell D'Sa
Founder and CEO
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David Zhao
Co-Founder and CTO
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Recent News

Redpoint Ventures
Open Source Real-Time Communication: Our Investment in LiveKit
2025-12-31
TechCrunch
LiveKit co-founder believes the metaverse needs open infrastructure | TechCrunch
2025-12-31
redpoint.com
Redpoint Portfolio: LiveKit
2025-12-31
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