Founding Senior Engineer (Infrastructure)

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 Apply now 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-endShip 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 monitoringShip 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 infrastructureUnprompted, 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 Other jobs at Vapi Founding Growth Engineer fulltime CA, US Full stack $90K - $160K 0.10% - 0.50% 3+ years Apply Founding Senior Engineer (Frontend) fulltime CA, US / New York, NY, US Frontend $100K - $220K 0.10% - 0.60% 3+ years Apply Founding Developer Relations Lead fulltime CA, US $80K - $140K 0.10% - 0.40% 3+ years Apply Founding Senior Engineer (Infrastructure) fulltime San Francisco, CA, US / CA, US Devops $100K - $220K 0.20% - 0.70% 6+ years Apply Founding Senior Engineer (Backend) fulltime San Francisco, CA, US Backend $100K - $220K 0.20% - 0.70% 3+ years Apply Founding Sales fulltime CA, US $60K - $140K 0.10% - 0.40% 3+ years Apply Hundreds of YC startups are hiring on Work at a Startup. Sign up to see more "º #J-18808-Ljbffr

Created: 2025-01-14