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Founding Senior Engineer (Infrastructure)

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Founding Senior Engineer (Infrastructure) at Vapi (W21)

$100K - $220K



0.20% - 0.70%

Voice AI for developers.

San Francisco, CA, US / CA, US

Full-time

6+ years

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About Vapi

Voice AI for developers About the role

Skills:

JavaScript, Kubernetes, Node.js, Rust, TypeScript, Distributed Systems

Company Overview

Apple Intelligence and Google Gemini are about to onboard 4 billion people to voice assistants that actually talk like people. This marks a new beginning for voice as the world’s default interface. We will

all

want voice

everywhere . Businesses are not ready. Products are not ready. We’re building the infrastructure that helps developers close the gap between the raw model and voice AI in production.

Give it a try here

. We

launched in March , scaled revenue, and raised this past week. We’re a small team of 6 and growing. We're building out the founding team in-person in SF to scale what’s working. Mission

The Founding Senior Engineer (Infra) will be responsible for scaling Vapi’s real-time conversational infrastructure to millions of concurrent calls, while ensuring every call gets picked up within 1s with 99.9% reliability. You’ll also be a foundational part of how we build the culture at Vapi. Outcomes

Own scalability projects end-to-end

Ship a pre-scoped project within the first 7 days (eg. redis HA) Ship a project independently within the first 30 days (eg. new CRD for managing worker pools)

Build monitoring

Ship pre-defined monitoring goals within the first 14 days (eg. prometheus rules) Ship monitoring independently within the first 30 days (eg. refactor call monitoring to real-time alert on latency spikes)

Build anti-frangibility into the infrastructure

Unprompted, build things that make our infrastructure more antifragile (eg. auto multi-cluster rollover).

Competencies

Experience with Kubernetes, Pulumi, or scaling other distributed systems Communication: You can clearly articulate what you’re thinking

and

feeling Cracked-ness: You’re more cracked than the most cracked person on the team Startup Ready: You have a reason to be here and can make sacrifices for something uncertain Founder Juice: New ideas come from you, you build it yourself or annoy everyone until it’s done ;) Qualifications

Previous Founding/Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer 1+ years of experience at company

5+ years experience in Engineering 2+ years of experience in Infrastructure Apply now

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