Member of Technical Staff, DevOps

Vapi; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Slope, located in San Francisco, is seeking an experienced individual to lead progressive delivery processes. This role involves extensive work with cutting-edge technologies and various deployment strategies to enhance the efficiency of internal engineering teams.

The ideal candidate has experience with Pulumi, Terraform, and deploying applications using GitOps methodologies. A platform-as-a-product mindset is essential to ensure successful outcomes for all stakeholders involved in the delivery process.

Qualifications

• Experience with progressive delivery methods like canary and blue/green deployments.
• Proficient in operating Pulumi or Terraform at scale.
• Experience with GitOps for deploying applications.

Responsibilities

• Own progressive delivery end-to-end for critical service paths.
• Establish SLAs and feedback loops with engineering teams.
• Improve deploy pipeline speed and reliability.

Skills

Platform-as-a-product mindset

Pulumi (TypeScript) or Terraform

ArgoCD for deploying applications

CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)

Deploy tooling for on-demand environments

Languages: TypeScript, Go, Bash

Job description

Why We’re Hiring This Role:

• Three of our worst recent incidents - Nov 29 config rollout, Dec 23 duplicate messages, Oct 13 egress proxy - were resolved by rollback.
• You’ll own progressive delivery (canary, blue/green, automated rollback, soak periods), the GitOps story across multiple clusters and regions, and on-demand environment tooling on the Q3 roadmap. Success is measured by how fast every other team ships safely.

What You’ll Do:

• 30 Day: Get fluent in the Pulumi stacks, the ArgoCD setup, and GitHub Actions pipelines. Sit with engineers from agents and FDE teams to find the top 3 deploy pain points. Land a quality-of-life improvement to the deploy pipeline.
• 60 Day: Own progressive delivery end-to-end - canary, automated rollback, soak - for at least one critical service path. Ship the first version of cell-creation tooling or preview environments. Make the deploy pipeline measurably faster (lead time, MTTR for failed deploys).
• 90 Day: Roll out progressive delivery as the default across services. Establish SLAs and a feedback loop with engineering teams. Own the developer‑platform roadmap and partner with Infra and SRE on cell creation, multi‑region rollouts, and on‑call tooling.

Who You Are:

Must-haves

• You have a platform-as-a-product mindset - you treat internal engineers as customers, with SLAs, docs, and feedback loops, not tickets and ad‑hoc help.
• You’ve operated Pulumi (TypeScript) or Terraform at scale (40+ stacks, multi‑region) and you’ve felt the pain when IaC sprawl gets ahead of you.
• You’ve run ArgoCD or equivalent GitOps for deploying applications across multiple clusters.
• You’ve built progressive delivery in production - canary, blue/green, automated rollback, soak periods. You can describe a real rollout that automated rollback caught.
• You’ve designed CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred) for many services and Dockerfiles, not just one repo.
• You’ve built deploy tooling for on-demand environments - preview envs, dev deployments, or cell creation.

Nice-to-haves

• You’ve written Go for platform services (Vapi’s canary-manager is Go).
• You’ve operated developer platforms at a mid-stage infra‑heavy company or a DevEx team at a larger shop.

Tech stack you’ll work in

• Languages: TypeScript (primary, for Pulumi and tooling), Go (for canary-manager and platform services), Bash.
• IaC: Pulumi (TypeScript) at scale (40+ stacks across regions), Terraform.
• GitOps and deploy: ArgoCD (multi‑cluster), GitHub Actions, 15+ Dockerfiles.
• Progressive delivery: canary, blue/green, automated rollback, soak periods (canary-manager Go service).
• Orchestration: Kubernetes on EKS (multi‑cluster, multi‑region).
• Vapi services you’ll touch: canary-manager, cell‑creation tooling, preview env tooling.

Where you likely come from

• Vercel, Render, Railway, Fly, Temporal, Cockroach (mid‑stage infra‑heavy), or DevEx/Platform teams at Stripe, Shopify, Airbnb, or Block.
• Weak fit: classic AWS sysadmin, or someone whose CI/CD experience is mostly Jenkins GUI‑level.