Vapi
Member of Technical Staff, Agentic Release Engineer
San Francisco · Staff+ · Full-time
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About the role
- Every release must stay fast, safe, observable, and predictable at scale. - Our CI and deployment systems are critical product infrastructure.
- This role focuses on CI/CD, testing, and deployment safety, not primary incident response.
- Who You Are: - Evidence of owning critical CI/CD or release infrastructure at meaningful scale and driving measurable cross-team improvements.
Responsibilities
- 30 Days: Map Vapi's release architecture end to end. Partner with product and infrastructure engineers, baseline CI/test/deploy performance, identify the biggest failure modes, and ship an initial improvement.
- 90 Days: Establish a repeatable model for safe, fast releases with measurable gains in validation time, deploy speed, and reliability. Deliver self-service workflows and guardrails, and set the longer-term release-infrastructure roadmap.
- Strong distributed-systems fundamentals and the ability to diagnose failures across build, test, deployment, and infrastructure layers.
- A low-ego teammate who communicates clearly and owns outcomes. Familiarity with AI coding tools is expected
- Build something worthy of love
- We finish what we start and build trust by being people others can count on.
- We operate as one team. We share credit, own mistakes together, and support each other when things get hard.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes-based delivery systems and infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Argo CD, Terraform, and Atlantis or comparable systems.
- Deep curiosity and the ability to gather context quickly, form a clear point of view, and keep pace as the architecture and product evolve.
Nice to have
- experience as an SRE, with development frameworks like multi-agent workflows, and programming languages like TypeScript and Go are a plus.
- Familiarity with AI coding tools is expected
Compensation
- More: catered meals, transportation, equipment, and a $10k annual L&D budget
Benefits
- Real stake: $235,000-$280,000 base salary, plus meaningful equity ownership
- Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plans
- Flexible time off: take what you need
- 60 Days: Own the release-tooling roadmap and operating health.
Company info
- The fastest path to customer value usually wins. - Seek raw input - We go directly to customers, data, and teammates instead of relying on summaries or assumptions. - It's our problem - We operate as one team.
- Craft matters. We aim to build products and experiences customers genuinely love, not just tolerate.
- We go directly to customers, data, and teammates instead of relying on summaries or assumptions.
- What We Offer:
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