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San Francisco, CA Full Time Posted by: Vapi Posted: Friday, 23 January 2026
 
 

We're the shift to voice as humanity's default interface. We're the most configurable platform for deploying voice agents. We're grown to 400,000 developers in 20 months, adding 2,000+ every day. Try talking to Vapi now!

Vapi (/'w?pi/)

Why We're Hiring This Role
  • Our engineering org is scaling fast. We need leaders who can build high-performing teams, not just ship features.
  • We need a Principal Engineering Manager to own a product engineering team-hiring, developing, and retaining exceptional engineers while delivering on an ambitious roadmap.
  • You'll be the person who makes engineers better, removes blockers before they become fires, and turns a group of smart people into a team that compounds.
What You'll Do
  1. 30 Day:
    • Learn the Vapi platform, architecture, and codebase deeply enough to have real technical opinions.
    • Build relationships with your team. Understand each engineer's strengths, growth areas, motivations, and blockers.
    • Shadow the current workflow-standups, planning, code reviews, deploys. Identify what's working and what's slowing the team down.
    • Partner with product and design to understand the roadmap and priorities.
  2. 60 Day:
    • Own team health and delivery. Your team ships predictably, sustainably, and with quality.
    • Establish engineering rituals that create clarity: sprint planning, retros, 1:1s, blameless postmortems.
    • Start upgrading the team: identify gaps, open reqs, source candidates, raise the hiring bar.
    • Remove at least one systemic blocker that's been killing velocity (process, tech debt, unclear ownership).
  3. 90 Day:
    • Your team is humming: engineers are growing, shipping weekly, and fire drills are rare.
    • You've made at least one exceptional hire (or have strong candidates in pipeline).
    • Delivery is predictable. Product and leadership trust your team's estimates and commitments.
    • You're raising the engineering bar at Vapi-through code review culture, mentorship, and setting the example for what great engineering leadership looks like.
Who You Are
  • You've seen Series B to F.
  • You're sold multi-million dollar deals to F500.
  • Bonus: You've built your own startup.
Why Vapi
  • Generational impact: Build human interface for every business.
  • Ownership culture: 90% of company is 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 competitive salary and excellent equity ownership.
  • Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • Team love: We love hanging out and do quarterly offsites.
  • Flexible time off: take what you need.
  • More: catered meals and transportation, gym & coaching stipends!
San Francisco, CA, United States of America
IT
Vapi
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