Build software, automation, and observability for Vapi’s latency-sensitive voice AI infrastructure. You’ll own reliability improvements across distributed systems, incident response, capacity, and production operations at scale.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
