Apollo GraphQL is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer

Summary

The job description is for a Distributed Systems Engineer role at Apollo, focusing on Service Delivery, Infrastructure Management, CI/CD, and Operational Excellence. The position offers competitive compensation, benefits, and is remote within the United States or Canada.

Requirements

• You have systems expertise and experience with stateless/fault tolerant systems, as well as familiarity with eventing patterns and distributed paradigms
• You think about weighing technical and business trade-offs and are working at ‘seeing down the road and around corners.’
• You enjoy cross-team collaboration and believe in a ‘rising tides lifts all boats’ mentality
• You are data-oriented and have leveraged data to make decisions in a concrete way
• You have familiarity with Kubernetes, GCP (preferably, but AWS or Azure is great too!), Terraform

Responsibilities

• You’ll become a key contributor to the team, taking responsibility for the success of some of our subsystems
• You will be participating on medium to large impact team initiatives, and within a year be able to execute on such projects
• You’ll help with interviewing potential teammates
• You’ll create technical designs that proactively address cost efficiency, security, and observability
• You’ll deliver technical plans, one-pagers, DRs, and other artifacts
• You’ll work with Kubernetes, GCP, Helm, Terraform, DataDog, ArgoCD, CircleCI, Atlantis, Docker (the list goes on) to deliver your work
• You’ll be responsible for improving developer velocity across the company (leveraging frameworks like DORA) and hardening our reliability and observability
• You'll participate in on-call rotation

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus points for Helm, Docker, ArgoCD, CircleCI, DataDog, and of course GraphQL!

Benefits

• At Apollo, we strive to provide competitive, market-informed compensation whilst ensuring consistency within the team in each country
• Apollo offers all U.S. employees a choice of 3 Anthem Blue Cross medical plans and California residents can also choose from an additional 2 Kaiser medical plans
• Dental and Vision benefits are provided by Sun Life Financial
• Location: This is a remote position that can be done from anywhere in the United States or Canada