Staff Engineer, Agentic Developer Experience

Vapi; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Real stake: equity ownership

Health coverage: medical, dental, and视

Quarterly off-sites

Flexible time off

L&D budget: $10k

Job summary

Vapi in San Francisco is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to own the platform for autonomous, background engineering and to connect sandboxes, CI, verification, and background agents into a cohesive system. You’ll map workflows, launch production pipelines, and build a scalable agent harness to place real calls, measure latency, and iterate toward a verified result, accelerating delivery across teams.

You’ll work across distributed systems, API design, and cloud infrastructure to ship 10x

Qualifications

• Built internal platforms, developer tooling, or infrastructure that significantly changed how engineers build, test, and ship software.
• Hands-on engineer with strong fundamentals across distributed systems, platform architecture, API design, CI/CD, and large-codebase workflows.
• Experience building agent harnesses and using coding agents on real engineering work.
• Knowledge of secure agent interfaces, MCP integrations, and sandboxed runtimes for API calls, CLI commands, and tools.

Responsibilities

• Map and instrument Vapi’s path from task to production, identifying constraints and shipping improvements to sandbox tooling or validation infra.
• Launch production workflows in Vapi’s internal software factory and provide context, tools, telemetry, and automated quality gates for task reviews.
• Own and launch Vapi’s platform for autonomous, background engineering and build a harness for real calls with latency and telemetry measurements.
• Create a foundation that accelerates engineers and supports 10x faster shipping.

Skills

Distributed systems

Platform architecture

CI/CD

Monorepo workflows

TypeScript

Python

Go

Cloud infrastructure

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Monorepo tooling

Job description

Vapi in San Francisco is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to own the platform for autonomous, background engineering and to connect sandboxes, CI, verification, and background agents into a cohesive system. You’ll map workflows, launch production pipelines, and build a scalable agent harness to place real calls, measure latency, and iterate toward a verified result, accelerating delivery across teams.

You’ll work across distributed systems, API design, and cloud infrastructure to ship 10x