Jobs Companies Apollo GraphQL Senior Platform Engineer

About this Senior Platform Engineer role at Apollo GraphQL

Apollo GraphQL · Remote · United States or Canada (remote)

Are you a talented and driven distributed systems engineer, with a proven track record, capable of leading cross-organizational features? Does tech debt quiver in its boots at the sound of your name? Do you butter your bread with evented systems? Have the letters C, Q, R, and S been ruined for you in an eventually consistent manner? Have we got news for you: you’re not alone!

In this role, you’ll be a key contributor to our Platform Engineering team. You'll get the chance to hone your skills alongside some of the best Platform Engineers (think SRE meets Ops with a heavy focus on automation of everything). Our team’s current focus is on Service Delivery (Kubernetes), Infrastructure Management (Terraform), CI/CD (Argo, Atlantis), and in general all things SLOs and Operational Excellence. Your teammates are talented folks who value code that is 80% of the value for 20% of the work, designs that 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 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

Who you are

A description of our ideal candidate.

Minimum requirements

  • You have systems expertise and experience with stateless/fault tolerant systems, as well as familiarity with eventing patterns and distributed paradigms.

  • 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

Nice to have

  • Bonus points for Helm, Docker, ArgoCD, CircleCI, DataDog, and of course GraphQL!

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How this DevOps salary compares

This role pays $180,000/yrin line with the typical range for DevOps roles.

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Typical range $162,500–$221,600/yr, from 369 comparable DevOps listings on JobsRadar (pay annualized to USD). See DevOps salary insights →

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