Senior Platform Engineer

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🕒 June 30

🌐 United States, Canada – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $165k - $195k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Apollo GraphQL

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51 - 200 employees

🔌 API

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

API • Enterprise • SaaS

Apollo GraphQL is a company that offers a comprehensive platform for GraphQL development, enabling developers to create powerful, context-rich APIs. The platform, known as Apollo GraphOS, facilitates seamless app development by unifying APIs into a declarative query-based system, enhancing developer efficiency and offering real-time data access. Apollo's solutions support enterprise-level implementations, providing tools for backend teams to create a composable and self-service data graph that powers diverse applications with consistent and performant user experiences. With a focus on scalability, security, and rapid AI-driven iteration, Apollo GraphQL is trusted by industry leaders such as Netflix, PayPal, and Warner Brothers. The company is committed to improving collaboration across development teams and streamlining the delivery of feature improvements.

📋 Description

• 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 rotations and help keep all of Apollo afloat • You’ll be fully empowered to fix the root cause of issues, and ruthlessly quell any noisy monitors

🎯 Requirements

• You have systems expertise and experience with stateless/fault tolerant systems • You’ve leveraged agentic tooling to not only enhance your day to day work, but detect and mitigate issues in production • 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’re a joy to those around you, bringing everyone along for the ride. • 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

🏖️ Benefits

• Apollo offers all U.S. employees a choice of 3 Anthem Blue Cross medical plans • California residents can also choose from an additional 2 Kaiser medical plans • Dental and Vision benefits are provided by Sun Life Financial