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$100,000.00/yr - $220,000.00/yr

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 a Series A from a top-tier firm 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer 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

Not coming directly from FAANG

Minimum 1 year of experience at company

Minimum of 5 years experience in Engineering

Minimum 2 years of experience in Infrastructure

You have 2 people you have worked with directly who can vouch for you

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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