Member of Technical Staff, Site Reliablity Engineer

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

- Try talking to Vapi now! https://vapi.ai/

WHY WE’RE HIRING THIS ROLE:

- 99.99% call completion is the number this role drives. Vapi runs live phone calls — a p99 spike means callers drop. We’ve had 15 stability-gap outages worth learning from, and we need someone who runs incident command, owns SLOs and error budgets, and builds the reliability culture from scratch.

- This is not a bash-and-YAML role. You’ll ship code (Go or TypeScript) for services that monitor and manage the platform: auto-remediation, capacity forecasters, oncall tooling. Capacity planning, load testing, and KEDA-based autoscaling for Vapi’s wscaler and workerpool-cron-scaler are on your plate.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

- 30 Day: Join the oncall rotation. Walk the 15 stability-gap incidents and turn the patterns into a prioritized reliability backlog. Define the first set of SLOs for the call-completion path.

- 60 Day: Stand up error budgets and SLO-based alerting in Chronosphere/Prometheus for the highest-impact services. Run the first proper load test against provider rate limits and per-org concurrency. Tune autoscaling for wscaler / workerpool-cron-scaler.

- 90 Day: Ship a real platform service — capacity forecaster, auto-remediation, or oncall tooling — in Go or TypeScript. Own the postmortem process. Drive a measurable improvement in p99 call completion or MTTR.

WHO YOU ARE:

Must-haves

- You’ve run incident command and postmortem discipline at scale on a real oncall rotation.

- You’ve operated SLOs and error budgets in Chronosphere, Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.

- You’ve done capacity planning and load testing for production systems with real users.

- You’re fluent in Kubernetes production ops: pod crash diagnosis, HPA/VPA tuning, PodDisruptionBudgets, graceful shutdown.

- You know backpressure and autoscaling patterns — KEDA, custom metrics scaling.

Nice-to-haves

- You ship code, not just scripts. You can build platform services in Go or TypeScript (matches Vapi’s cluster-manager, database-health, wscaler, incidentManager).

- Real-time / latency-sensitive product background where degraded means a dropped call, not a slow dashboard.

Tech stack you’ll work in

- Languages: Go and TypeScript (you ship code, not just scripts), Bash.

- Observability: Chronosphere, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry.

- Orchestration: Kubernetes on EKS — production ops (HPA/VPA tuning, PodDisruptionBudgets, graceful shutdown, pod crash diagnosis).

- Autoscaling and backpressure: KEDA, custom metrics scaling (matches Vapi’s wscaler and workerpool-cron-scaler).

- Load testing: script-based load testing, provider rate-limit auditing, per-org concurrency auditing.

- Vapi services you’ll touch or build: cluster-manager, database-health, wscaler, incidentManager.

Where you likely come from

- A real-time / latency-sensitive product (Discord, Zoom, Mux, Twitch, Twilio, LiveKit, Cloudflare, a trading firm, a gaming backend), or a FAANG SRE / Production Engineer (Google, Uber, Twitter/X, Meta) who misses being hands-on.

- Weak fit: SRE from analytics or CRM backends where “degraded” means a slow dashboard, not a dropped call. Anyone uncomfortable reading or writing code.

WHY VAPI:

- Generational impact: Build the human interface for every business

- Ownership culture: 70% of the company 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: We offer a competitive salary and excellent 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, gym, and a $10k annual L&D budget