Vapi
Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure Engineer
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- Arrangement
- Hybrid
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Level
- Staff
- Posted
- 12 September 2026 (18 days ago)
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About this role
Vapi (/ˈVɑːpi/):
- Voice AI that resolves, not transfers
- Powering 1 billion calls for companies like Amazon Ring, Intuit, ServiceTitan, and New York Life
- Trusted by 1 million developers building the future of voice agents
- Backed by Peak XV, Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins, M12, Y Combinator, and more with $72M raised
- Try talking to Vapi now! https://vapi.ai/
VAPI (/ˈVⱭːPI/):
- Voice AI that resolves, not transfers
- Powering 1 billion calls for companies like Amazon Ring, Intuit, ServiceTitan, and New York Life
- Trusted by 1 million developers building the future of voice agents
- Backed by Peak XV, Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins, M12, Y Combinator, and more with $72M raised
- Try talking to Vapi now! https://vapi.ai/
WHY THIS ROLE:
- Vapi’s real-time voice platform depends on core infrastructure across compute, storage, networking, and telephony. As usage grows, reliability has to be designed into the systems our customers depend on.
- We’re adding a dedicated SRE profile to our five-person Infrastructure team. We need a software-first engineer who can build tooling and automation, improve observability, and turn operational lessons into lasting engineering improvements.
- This role has a distinct focus from our broader Infrastructure Engineer role because it requires deep reliability and operability judgment. You’ll join a calibrated team and work on latency-sensitive systems at meaningful scale. This role is based in San Francisco.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
- 30 Days: Learn Vapi’s architecture, production environment, incident history, and reliability practices. Build context with the Infrastructure and product engineering teams, then contribute an initial operational or reliability improvement.
- 60 Days: Own a reliability workstream across observability, incident response, capacity, performance, or production automation. Reduce manual work and improve how the team detects, understands, and responds to failures.
- 90 Days: Become the go-to owner for a meaningful part of Vapi’s reliability surface. Deliver a durable improvement to failure prevention or recovery, and propose a roadmap for the next reliability investments.
WHO YOU ARE:
- You are a senior or staff-level software engineer with meaningful SRE, production engineering, or infrastructure experience in distributed systems.
- You write production-quality software and have built reliability tooling or automation yourself, rather than relying only on operational process.
- You have deep experience with observability, incident response, failure analysis, capacity, and the practices that keep production systems healthy.
- You are comfortable with Kubernetes, networking, and cloud infrastructure, and you can debug across application and infrastructure boundaries.
- You reason clearly about failure modes and can balance reliability investments with product and engineering velocity.
- Experience with real-time networking or telephony, Envoy, Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Aurora, ClickHouse, or a Google-style SRE environment is a strong plus.
HOW WE WORK:
- Build something worthy of love
- Craft matters. We aim to build products and experiences customers genuinely love, not just tolerate.
- Commit and follow through
- We finish what we start and build trust by being people others can count on.
- Why not today?
- We value urgency and momentum. The fastest path to customer value usually wins.
- Seek raw input
- We go directly to customers, data, and teammates instead of relying on summaries or assumptions.
- It’s our problem
- We operate as one team. We share credit, own mistakes together, and support each other when things get hard.
- Be direct and kind
- We give feedback clearly, respectfully, and without delay.
WHY VAPI:
- Generational impact: Build the human interface for every business
- Ownership culture: 70% of the company are previous founders
- Kind team: The founders, Jordan and Nikhil, are Canadians
- Tier-1 Investors: YC, KP seed, Bessemer Series A
WHAT WE OFFER:
- Real stake: We offer a base salary of $280,000 to $314,000 and excellent equity ownership
- Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plans
- Team love: We love hanging out, and we do quarterly off-sites
- Flexible time off: take what you need
- More: catered meals, transportation, gym, and a $10k annual L&D budget
Work location
- San Francisco, CA, US
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Published 12 September 2026, last checked 18 days ago. A posting stops being advertised here 90 days after the employer published it, and one the employer takes down is marked closed rather than quietly removed.