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!
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.
Privacy: California residents applying for positions at Apollo can see our privacy policy here.
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.
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What We Do
Apollo GraphQL is powering the future of modern development, enabling businesses to accelerate product velocity and platform innovation with the power of the supergraph. Apollo is the most widespread implementation of GraphQL. The company is focused on using its market and technical leadership to make application development easier, better, and faster for everyone by combining APIs, databases, and microservices into a supergraph that can effectively be queried by GraphQL.
Why Work With Us
We’re the company responsible for bringing GraphQL to the global community. We are scaling to ensure that we have the wherewithal to keep our promises to our subscribers, community and GraphQL enthusiasts. Our revenue is going to more than 2x in 2022 and we’re planning on adding 100 new Apollonauts by the end of 2022.
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