Staff Software Engineer, Backend Distributed Systems
Job Type
Full Time
Salary
$167k - $212k
Skills
React
TypeScript
Kotlin
Rust
Summary
Mission/Vision: Build developer tools to help large enterprises scale with GraphQL in production
Key Responsibilities: Design and build features for cloud services, integrate with popular developer tools, and contribute to Apollo's own schema and graph scaling practices
Growth Opportunities: Work with cutting-edge prototypes and contribute to a global developer community
Description
Are you an experienced distributed systems engineer excited to work on the developer tools that help the biggest companies around the world scale in production with GraphQL? If you care deeply about end-user experience and want to contribute to building tools that you, as a developer, can have a voice in guiding the direction of, read on!
What You'll Do
Help design and build features that help the world’s largest enterprises go to production with GraphQL.
Build end-to-end features for our customers, using various languages in our tech stack such as React with TypeScript, Kotlin, Postgres, Kafka, Rust, Druid and more.
Work closely with product managers and designers to define product experiences and represent the engineering voice in product development.
Design and build technical integrations between Apollo's cloud services and popular developer tools like Datadog, Pagerduty, Sentry, OpenTelemetry, Terraform, and GitHub.
Use new Apollo prototypes before anyone else and help us hone our “developers building for developers” experiences.
Help onboard new team members and explain the tools we build to our global developer community.
Help us design and build our own schema, while figuring out our own best practices for schema building and graph scaling.
Participate in on-call rotation if required (team dependent).
Who You Are
You have deep systems expertise and experience with stateless/fault tolerant systems, as well as familiarity with eventing patterns and distributed paradigms.
You are adept at weighing technical and business trade-offs and can “see down the road and around corners”.
You enjoy cross-team collaboration and believe in a “rising tides lifts all boats” mentality.
You level up those around you, bringing everyone along for the ride.
You have the ability to work with many different team members across various orgs and positively influence others.
You are data-oriented with a history of leveraging data to create a sticky, high-quality product for users. Bonus points if you know GraphQL!
$167,450 - $211,775 a year
At Apollo, we strive to provide competitive, market-informed compensation whilst ensuring consistency within the team in each country. We make hiring decisions based on your skills, experience, and our overall assessment of what we learned during the hiring process. In addition to the U.S. base salary range, we also provide equity and benefits.
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.
Equal Opportunity: Apollo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a talented and diverse workforce.
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