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Speakeasy

Automates SDK generation and API docs

Platform Engineer - Site Reliability Engineering, AI Control Plane

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid
San Francisco, CA, USA
In Person
DevOps & InfrastructureSite Reliability Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • Ability to work across the stack from backend to frontend.
  • Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and respond to production incidents.
  • Ability to work in person at the San Francisco office.
  • Experience improving a product's reliability and uptime.
Responsibilities
  • Identify architectural changes to improve reliability, performance, and availability.
  • Foster a culture of reliability across the engineering organization.
  • Design and implement operational processes for deployments, upgrades, rollbacks, and postmortem reviews.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation and respond to production incidents.
  • Build monitoring systems to ensure high-quality service for customers.
  • Debug production issues across all services and levels of the stack.
  • Own the full lifecycle of development, including building, shipping, supporting, maintaining infrastructure, and measuring impact.

About the company

Speakeasy automates the creation and management of APIs for developers and businesses. It focuses on generating Software Development Kits (SDKs) automatically, making it easier for teams to integrate APIs across languages and platforms. The platform also offers API documentation and integration support as part of its service. Customers subscribe to access different features and pricing tiers, with options for custom solutions. Speakeasy stands out by centering the SDK generation process—saving developers time and reducing the manual work needed to connect applications—rather than just offering generic API management tools. The company's goal is to speed up API integration and boost developer productivity, helping teams build and improve software faster.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$10.9M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2022

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What believers are saying

  • Codat's 2026-08-21 case study says three production-ready SDKs shipped in two weeks.
  • MoonPay's customer story on speakeasy.com highlights AI control-plane demand in 2026.
  • Speakeasy's 2026 docs added MCP, AI control plane, and Terraform generation.

What critics are saying

  • Postman, Kong, Apigee, and Stoplight outrank Speakeasy in 2026 benchmark lists.
  • GitHub's 2026-09-14 open-source releases expose Speakeasy's core SDK workflow to copying.
  • Postman or AWS can bundle Speakeasy's core into platform contracts by 2027.

What makes Speakeasy unique

  • OpenAPI-native toolchain ships SDKs, Terraform providers, MCP servers, and CLIs from one spec.
  • Speakeasy.com docs on 2026-08-18 emphasize idiomatic clients for Python, Go, Java, C#.
  • GitHub showed 2,041 releases by 2026-09-14, signaling deep product velocity.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Remote Work Options
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

-2%

1 year growth

-6%

2 year growth

9%
FinSMEs
Jul 4th, 2023
Speakeasy Closes $7.6M Seed Funding

Speakeasy, a San Francisco, CA- and London, UK-based API infrastructure company, raised $7.6M in Seed funding.

GlobeNewswire
Jun 29th, 2023
Speakeasy Supercharges API Creation and Consumption and Closed $7.6 Million in Seed Funding Led by GV Last Month, Bringing the Total Raised to $11 Million

SAN FRANCISCO, June 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today Speakeasy, the API infrastructure company, emerged from stealth with the first platform that...

TechCrunch
Jun 29th, 2023
Speakeasy is using AI to automate API creation and distribution

Speakeasy is using AI to automate the creation and distribution of APIs, greatly simplifying what had been a time-consuming activity.

Speakeasy
Jun 29th, 2023
Speakeasy's $11M Raise | Speakeasy

Speakeasy is today announcing that it has raised $11M in combined seed, pre-seed funding from backers including Crystal Huang at Google Ventures, Astasia Myers at Quiet Capital, Flex Capital, StoryHouse Ventures, Firestreak Ventures, and angels including Amit Agarwal (President at Datadog), Clint Sharp (Co-founder and CEO of Cribl) and Todd Berman (CTO of Attentive), and more.