Senior Release Engineer: CI/CD, Kubernetes & Safe Deploys

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 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.