{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"6e8bdb3cb77324fca58679d9","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/6e8bdb3cb77324fca58679d9","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/6e8bdb3cb77324fca58679d9","title":"Engineering Manager, Trust & Safety","description":"Vapi (/ˈVɑːpi/)Voice AI that resolves, not transfersPowering 1 billion calls for companies like Amazon Ring, Intuit, ServiceTitan, and New York LifeTrusted by 1 million developers building the future of voice agentsBacked by Peak XV, Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins, M12, Y Combinator, and more with $72M raisedTry talking to Vapi now!Why We’re Hiring This RoleVapi is scaling fast, and the systems that protect our revenue and customer trust need dedicated engineering leadership. You’ll lead a team of four engineers across billing, fraud, and outbound telephony, with billing, pricing, and packaging making up the largest share of the work.Partner closely with our PM for Enterprise & Governance to set priorities and turn the roadmap into reliable delivery. You’ll strengthen the team’s existing operating rhythm, coach engineers, and own service reliability, on-call, and incident response.People leadership is the priority: expect roughly 60–70% people management and 20–30% hands-on building, alongside architecture and code review. The balance can flex with team needs. You’ll shape how the team works and build systems that scale with Vapi.What You’ll Do30 Days: Learn our billing, fraud, and outbound telephony systems. Meet each engineer and your product partners, understand current commitments, and assess architecture, service ownership, on-call coverage, and team development needs. Align on the highest-priority gaps.60 Days: Build on existing team routines to strengthen planning and delivery with Product, define service ownership, and strengthen on-call and incident response practices. Guide architecture and code reviews, deliver an initial prioritized improvement, and set clear expectations and growth goals with each engineer.90 Days: Own engineering delivery against a shared roadmap for billing, pricing, packaging, fraud, and outbound telephony. Use delivery and reliability data to prioritize improvements, build actionable development plans for the team, and identify the hiring and system investments needed to scale.Who You AreDemonstrated engineering management experience across coaching, performance, leveling, and career development. You can assess promotion readiness, handle difficult people situations, motivate engineers, and hold a team accountable for results.Experience designing scalable, reliable enterprise systems and leading engineers through complex technical problems. Billing systems experience is a strong plus; AI expertise is not required.Strong hands-on coding, architecture, and system design skills. You bring informed opinions to code review, evaluate tradeoffs, and earn the team’s trust through technical depth.Experience owning reliable services and improving on-call and incident response practices. Experience hiring and building a small engineering team is a plus.Experience partnering with a PM, with clear judgment about Product and Engineering responsibilities. You can translate product requirements into technical plans and work through disagreements constructively.Experience in trust and safety, fraud/risk, voice/telephony, or outbound-call compliance is a plus, as is experience scaling a newly formed team.How We WorkBuild something worthy of loveCraft matters. We aim to build products and experiences customers genuinely love, not just tolerate.Commit and follow throughWe finish what we start and build trust by being people others can count on.Why not today?We value urgency and momentum. The fastest path to customer value usually wins.Seek raw inputWe go directly to customers, data, and teammates instead of relying on summaries or assumptions.It’s our problemWe operate as one team. We share credit, own mistakes together, and support each other when things get hard.Be direct and kindWe give feedback clearly, respectfully, and without delay.Why VapiGenerational impact: Build the human interface for every businessOwnership culture: Many of us are previous foundersKind team: The founders, Jordan and Nikhil, are CanadiansTier-1 Investors: YC, KP seed, BessemerWhat We OfferReal stake: Annual base salary of $264,000–$297,000, plus equityComprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plansTeam love: We love hanging out, and we do quarterly off-sitesFlexible time off: take what you needMore: catered meals, transportation, equipment, and a $10k annual L&D budget","company":"Vapi","rawCompany":"vapi","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-09-24T07:22:36.415Z","occupations":[{"code":"11-9041.00","title":"Architectural and Engineering Managers","slug":"architectural-and-engineering-managers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"17-2199.00","title":"Engineers, All Other","slug":"engineers-all-other"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Engineering Manager, Trust & Safety","description":"Vapi (/ˈVɑːpi/)Voice AI that resolves, not transfersPowering 1 billion calls for companies like Amazon Ring, Intuit, ServiceTitan, and New York LifeTrusted by 1 million developers building the future of voice agentsBacked by Peak XV, Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins, M12, Y Combinator, and more with $72M raisedTry talking to Vapi now!Why We’re Hiring This RoleVapi is scaling fast, and the systems that protect our revenue and customer trust need dedicated engineering leadership. 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