Member of Technical Staff, Release Engineer

Vapi

The platform for voice agents that know your business.

• Customers: Amazon Ring, ServiceTitan, New York Life, Intuit, Kavak, and thousands more, from YC startups to the Fortune 500
• News: $50M Series B led by Peak XV Partners, with Bessemer Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins, M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund), Y Combinator, and our earlier backers. Total raised: $72M

Why We’re Hiring

Vapi ships hundreds of pull requests a day while serving some of the world’s largest enterprises. Every release must stay fast, safe, observable, and predictable at scale.

• The CI and deployment systems are critical product infrastructure.
• We need a senior/staff engineer to remove bottlenecks, repair fragile deploy paths, and increase confidence without slowing product teams.
• You’ll own the systems behind safe releases, including Argo CD, Terraform, and Atlantis—and automate the reliable path.
• This role focuses on CI/CD, testing, and deployment safety, not primary incident response.

What You’ll Do

• 30 Days: Map Vapi’s release architecture end to end. Partner with product and infrastructure engineers, baseline CI/test/deploy performance, identify the biggest failure modes, and ship an initial improvement.
• 60 Days: Own the release-tooling roadmap and operating health. Remove the costliest CI/deploy bottlenecks, improve observability and diagnosis, and automate slow or failure-prone workflows.
• 90 Days: Establish a repeatable model for safe, fast releases with measurable gains in validation time, deploy speed, and reliability. Deliver self-service workflows and guardrails, and set the longer-term release-infrastructure roadmap.

Who You Are

• Evidence of owning critical CI/CD or release infrastructure at meaningful scale and driving measurable cross-team improvements.
• Strong distributed-systems fundamentals and the ability to diagnose failures across build, test, deployment, and infrastructure layers.
• Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes-based delivery systems and infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Argo CD, Terraform, and Atlantis or comparable systems.
• A habit of automating repetitive work, investing in testing and passive defenses, and using data to prove that a system became faster or more reliable.
• A deep curiosity and the ability to gather context quickly, form a clear point of view, and keep pace as the architecture and product evolve.
• A low-ego teammate who communicates clearly and owns outcomes.
• Familiarity with AI coding tools is expected; experience as an SRE, with development frameworks like multi-agent workflows, and programming languages like TypeScript and Go are a plus.

How We Work

• Build something worthy of love
• Commit and follow through
• Why not today?
• Seek raw input
• Be direct and kind

What We Offer

• Real stake: $235,000–$280,000 base salary, plus meaningful equity ownership
• Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plans
• Team love: We love hanging out, and we do quarterly off-sites
• Flexible time off: take what you need
• More: catered meals, transportation, equipment, and a $10k annual L&D budget