Founding Senior Engineer (Site Reliability)

Vapi is revolutionizing the voice AI landscape as Apple Intelligence and Google Gemini prepare to introduce 4 billion people to human-like voice assistants. As a founding Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in building the infrastructure that bridges the gap between raw AI models and production-ready voice AI solutions.

The company recently launched in March and has already achieved significant milestones, including scaling revenue and securing Series A funding from a top-tier firm. With a small team of 6 members, Vapi is now expanding its founding team in San Francisco to scale their successful operations.

This SRE role is fundamental to Vapi's success, focusing on maintaining robust, scalable, and reliable real-time distributed systems that connect traditional telecommunications infrastructure with modern AI models. You'll be responsible for ensuring 99.99% system uptime, implementing automation, and establishing incident response protocols.

The ideal candidate brings strong technical expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS/GCP/Azure, and programming languages like Python or Go. You should be comfortable with uncertainty, possess excellent problem-solving abilities, and have a proven track record with distributed systems and infrastructure-as-code.

Join Vapi to be part of a transformative journey in voice AI technology, working directly with founders and having significant impact on the company's technical foundation and future growth. This role offers both technical challenges and the opportunity to shape the future of voice interfaces.