Vapi (/ˈVɑːpi/):
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Voice AI that resolves, not transfers
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Powering 1 billion calls for companies like Amazon Ring, Intuit, ServiceTitan, and New York Life
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Trusted by 1 million developers building the future of voice agents
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Backed by Peak XV, Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins, M12, Y Combinator, and more with $72M raised
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Try talking to Vapi now!
Vapi (/ˈVɑːpi/):
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Voice AI that resolves, not transfers
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Powering 1 billion calls for companies like Amazon Ring, Intuit, ServiceTitan, and New York Life
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Trusted by 1 million developers building the future of voice agents
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Backed by Peak XV, Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins, M12, Y Combinator, and more with $72M raised
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Try talking to Vapi now!
Why this Role:
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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:
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You are a senior or staff-level software engineer with meaningful SRE, production engineering, or infrastructure experience in distributed systems.
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You write production-quality software and have built reliability tooling or automation yourself, rather than relying only on operational process.
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You have deep experience with observability, incident response, failure analysis, capacity, and the practices that keep production systems healthy.
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You are comfortable with Kubernetes, networking, and cloud infrastructure, and you can debug across application and infrastructure boundaries.
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You reason clearly about failure modes and can balance reliability investments with product and engineering velocity.
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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:
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Build something worthy of love
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Craft matters. We aim to build products and experiences customers genuinely love, not just tolerate.
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Commit and follow through
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We finish what we start and build trust by being people others can count on.
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Why not today?
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We value urgency and momentum. The fastest path to customer value usually wins.
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Seek raw input
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We go directly to customers, data, and teammates instead of relying on summaries or assumptions.
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It’s our problem
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We operate as one team. We share credit, own mistakes together, and support each other when things get hard.
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Be direct and kind
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We give feedback clearly, respectfully, and without delay.
Why Vapi:
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Generational impact: Build the human interface for every business
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Ownership culture: 70% of the company are previous founders
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Kind team: The founders, Jordan and Nikhil, are Canadians
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Tier-1 Investors: YC, KP seed, Bessemer Series A
What We Offer:
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Real stake: We offer a base salary of $280,000 to $314,000 and excellent equity ownership
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Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plans
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Team love: We love hanging out, and we do quarterly off-sites
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Flexible time off: take what you need
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More: catered meals, transportation, gym, and a $10k annual L&D budget
Compensation Range: $280K - $314K