What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Senior Engineer (Infrastructure) position at VAPI?
Company Overview
Apple Intelligence and Google Gemini are about to onboard 4 billion people to voice assistants that actually talk like people. This marks a new beginning for voice as the world's default interface. We will all want voice everywhere. Businesses are not ready. Products are not ready.
We're building the infrastructure that helps developers close the gap between the raw model and voice AI in production. Give it a try here .
We launched in March , scaled revenue, and raised a Series A from a top-tier firm this past week. We're a small team of 17 and growing. We're building out the founding team in-person in SF to scale what's working.
Mission
The Founding Senior Engineer (Infra) will be responsible for scaling Vapi's real-time conversational infrastructure to millions of concurrent calls, while ensuring every call gets picked up within 1s with 99.9% reliability. You'll also be a foundational part of how we build the culture at Vapi.
Outcomes
- Own scalability projects end-to-end
Ship a pre-scoped project within the first 7 days (eg. redis HA)
Ship pre-defined monitoring goals within the first 14 days (eg. prometheus rules)
Unprompted, build things that make our infrastructure more antifragile (eg. auto multi-cluster rollover).
Competencies
Qualifications
Skills
JavaScript , Kubernetes, Node.js, Rust, TypeScript, Distributed Systems
