Staff Engineer, Agentic Developer Experience

Vapi, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity

Comprehensive health coverage

Quarterly off-sites

Flexible time off

$10k L&D budget

Job summary

Vapi is hiring an engineer to own and unify internal developer tooling and the end‑to‑end lifecycle for building real-time voice agents. You will connect sandboxes, CI, verification, and background agents into a cohesive system that scales across teams.

You will drive automation, telemetry, and quality gates to ship features faster while maintaining reliability and security for live calls and agent workflows.

Responsibilities

• Map and instrument Vapi’s path from task to production; identify the largest constraints on agent effectiveness, and ship improvements to sandbox tooling or validation.
• Launch the first production workflow in Vapi’s internal software factory; provide context, tools, telemetry, and automated quality gates for PRs backed by evidence.
• Own and launch Vapi’s platform for autonomous, background engineering; build a harness for real calls, measure latency, and verify results.

Job description

Vapi is hiring an engineer to own and unify internal developer tooling and the end‑to‑end lifecycle for building real-time voice agents. You will connect sandboxes, CI, verification, and background agents into a cohesive system that scales across teams.

You will drive automation, telemetry, and quality gates to ship features faster while maintaining reliability and security for live calls and agent workflows.