Member of Technical Staff, Agentic Release Engineer

Slope; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 235,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Quarterly off-sites

Flexible PTO

Catered meals

Transportation

L&D budget

Job summary

Vapi is seeking a senior/staff engineer to own CI/CD and release infrastructure in a hybrid San Francisco role. You will map architectures, remove bottlenecks, and automate workflows to achieve faster, safer deployments at scale.

You’ll work with Argo CD, Terraform, and Atlantis, applying strong distributed‑systems thinking and data‑driven improvements while collaborating across product and infra teams.

Qualifications

• Ownership of CI/CD or release infrastructure at meaningful scale with measurable improvements.
• Strong distributed‑systems fundamentals and ability to diagnose failures across build/test/deploy/infrastructure.
• Hands‑on experience operating Kubernetes delivery systems and IaC tooling such as Argo CD, Terraform or Atlantis; familiarity with Go/TypeScript is a plus.
• Automate repetitive work, enhance testing and build passive defenses with data‑driven improvements.

Responsibilities

• 30 Days: Map Vapi’s release architecture end to end, baseline CI/test/deploy performance, and ship an initial improvement.
• 60 Days: Own the release‑tooling roadmap, remove bottlenecks, improve observability, and automate fragile workflows.
• 90 Days: Establish a repeatable model for safe, fast releases with self‑service guardrails and a long‑term infra roadmap.

Skills

Kubernetes

Argo CD

Terraform

Atlantis

Go

TypeScript

CI/CD

SRE

Observability

Tools

Terraform

Argo CD

Atlantis

Job description

Vapi (/ˈVɑːpi/):

• Voice AI that resolves, not transfers
• Powering 1 billion calls for companies like Amazon Ring, Intuit, ServiceTitan, and New York Life
• Trusted by 1 million developers building the future of voice agents
• Backed by Peak XV, Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins, M12, Y Combinator, and more with $72M raised

Why We’re Hiring This Role:

• 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.
• Our 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. We care about impact, not a specific number of years.
• 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.
• 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.
• This is a full‑time, hybrid role in San Francisco.

How We Work:

• Build something worthy of love
  • Craft matters. We aim to build products and experiences customers genuinely love, not just tolerate.
• Commit and follow through
  • We finish what we start and build trust by being people others can count on.
• Why not today?
  • We value urgency and momentum. The fastest path to customer value usually wins.
• Seek raw input
  • We go directly to customers, data, and teammates instead of relying on summaries or assumptions.
• It’s our problem
  • We operate as one team. We share credit, own mistakes together, and support each other when things get hard.
• Be direct and kind
  • We give feedback clearly, respectfully, and without delay.

Why Vapi:

• Generational impact: Build the human interface for every business
• Ownership culture: Many of us are previous founders
• Kind team: The founders, Jordan and Nikhil, are Canadians
• Tier-1 Investors: YC, KP seed, Bessemer Series A

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