Founding Senior Engineer (Infrastructure)

Company: Vapi Dashboard
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: April 1, 2025

Job Description:

MissionThe 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-end

• Ship a pre-scoped project within the first 7 days (e.g., redis HA)
• Ship a project independently within the first 30 days (e.g., new CRD for managing worker pools)
• Build monitoring
  • Ship pre-defined monitoring goals within the first 14 days (e.g., prometheus rules)
  • Ship monitoring independently within the first 30 days (e.g., refactor call monitoring to real-time alert on latency spikes)
  • Build anti-fragility into the infrastructure
    • Unprompted, build things that make our infrastructure more antifragile (e.g., 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 a company with
        • 5+ years experience in Engineering
        • 2+ years of experience in InfrastructureSkillsJavaScript, Kubernetes, Node.js, Rust, TypeScript, Distributed SystemsRoleEngineeringEng typeDevOps
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