Sr Staff Software Engineer

Apollo is the worldwide leader of GraphQL innovation. Companies like Netflix, Walmart, Expedia, Peloton, DoorDash, and The New York Times are just a small sample of Apollo's customers. Our open-source product has millions of downloads every week. According to the new Gartner report, by 2027 more than 60% of enterprises will use GraphQL in production (up from less than 30% in 2024), and 30% of those enterprises will be using GraphQL federation, which Apollo pioneered.

GraphQL is transforming the software development space by creating a brand new layer in companies' stacks called the supergraph that helps engineering teams ship faster and build richer experiences than ever before. Join us and build the future of Apollo’s graph ecosystem!

In this high-impact role, you’ll partner with your engineering manager, product, design, and senior leadership to deliver best-in-class products. You'll help foster other engineers, setting a consistent example for how we lead projects and how we maintain our documents, dashboards, and code bases. You’ll work with talented folks who value code that is 80% of the value for 20% of the work, designs which are forward-thinking enough to be easily flexible for the next features, and leadership with a healthy dose of mindfulness and humility. 

What You'll Do

• You’ll become a key Domain owner for the team, taking responsibility for the success of every system and product you own, ensuring the relevant telemetry is being captured.

• You will lead cross-team groups of developers and shepherd large-impact initiatives along, either as the technical leader or coaching members of the team to become technical leaders.

• You’ll mentor junior members of the team and 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.

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 an 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!

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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E-Verify: Apollo is an E-Verify employer and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. For more information please visit E-Verify.