Staff Infrastructure Software Engineer

Vision

We're creating the shift to voice as humanity's default interface. Why voice? Because voice captures the nuance, the emotion, and the humanity of interactions in ways text alone can't: voice makes technology human again.

Mission

We're building the platform for the future of voice technology. Our market edge is extensible, reliable infrastructure designed for the full complexity of voice interactions. 18 months, 150k developers, adding 1000 every day. Give it a try here

The Role

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

1. Build reliable solutions.
2. Build scalable solutions.
3. Build well-instrumented and monitored solutions.

Competencies

• Experience with Kubernetes, Pulumi, or scaling other distributed systems 
• Communication: You can clearly articulate what you’re thinking and feeling
• Mission-driven: You believe in voice being the default interface for the products of the future
• 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+ year of experience with a seed or Series A company
• 3+ years of experience in Infrastructure
• 8+ years experience in Engineering

Skills

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