Apollo GraphQL is hiring a
Sr. Director of Engineering in United States

Summary

The job is for a Senior Director of Engineering role at Apollo's Graph Data Plane organization, responsible for delivering a high-performing, secure, and reliable self-service GraphQL platform. The position requires 3+ years of experience as a Sr. Director or above, leading and scaling teams, deep technical experience managing distributed systems at scale, and expertise in API design, platforms, or frameworks.

Requirements

• 3+ years as a Sr. Director or above (leading directors, managers, senior managers and Principal level IC's)
• Experience leading and scaling teams of at least 25 people
• Minimum 3 years of deep technical experience managing teams that have shipped and operated critical distributed systems infrastructure at scale
• Experience managing engineering teams working on API design, platforms (e.g. building internal or external developer products), or frameworks
• Skilled at both receiving feedback, and delivering feedback that moves the dial
• Creates alignment, clarity and connection through adaptive and persuasive written and verbal communication skills; able to apply technical judgment to drive clarity with Sr. Staff and Principal engineers about architecture and technical strategic decisions
• Understanding of different SDLC models and their relevance to source-available products, including optimizing for backwards compatibility, community reception and software licensing
• Experience driving business and product success in a highly cross-functional environment with a high level of autonomy and responsibility
• Experience successfully building a team (recruiting, mentoring and retaining), defining its mission, and executing on its goals

Responsibilities

• Lead key business KPIs to deliver results which align business goals to the organization’s technical strategy, roadmap and objectives
• Collaborate with and influence executive leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver cross-cutting strategic product and infrastructure projects
• Drive strategic and tactical prioritization of engineering investments to refine our systems architecture in ways that unlock next generation solutions for our user’s needs
• Manage and grow a team of engineers and engineering leaders, including line managers, to deliver high business impact projects on schedule with high-quality
• Partner with our Talent Acquisition team to attract and hire top talent, and define the overall hiring strategies for your team
• Build and lead high performing, collaborative teams, empowering leaders through trust, autonomy and psychological safety, and accelerating individual career development
• Understand free and open licensed projects deeply, to help drive the right balance between our users’ needs and the community interests
• Participate in on-call rotation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading large organizational and cultural change initiatives
• Experience leading a remote and globally distributed team
• Experience with a variety of common backend services and infrastructure platforms (GraphQL, databases, logging, event streams, metrics, caching, async programming models etc)
• Experience developing with and contributing to open source framework ecosystems
• Experience developing sustainable, in-house framework and abstraction ecosystems in large engineering orgs

Benefits

• Competitive, market-informed compensation
• Equity
• Benefits: 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