Senior Platform Engineer
Apollo GraphQLBase Salary
$165k - $195k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the success of selected platform subsystems and contribute to medium- and large-impact initiatives.
- Create technical designs, technical plans, one-pagers, and other engineering artifacts addressing cost efficiency, security, and observability.
- Use Kubernetes, GCP, Helm, Terraform, Datadog, ArgoCD, CircleCI, Atlantis, and Docker to deliver platform work.
- Improve company-wide developer velocity and harden reliability and observability.
- Participate in on-call rotations, resolve root causes, and reduce noisy monitors.
- Help interview potential teammates.
Requirements
- Systems expertise with stateless and fault-tolerant systems, eventing patterns, and distributed paradigms.
- Experience leveraging agentic tooling to enhance daily work and detect and mitigate production issues.
- Ability to evaluate technical and business trade-offs and anticipate future needs.
- Strong cross-team collaboration and data-oriented decision-making skills.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, GCP, and Terraform.
- Helm, Docker, ArgoCD, CircleCI, Datadog, and GraphQL are preferred.
Tech Stack
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About Apollo GraphQL
Apollo GraphQL is the leader in open-source and commercial GraphQL technologies. Apollo helps developers and engineering teams build better software faster with a declarative, graph-based approach to API orchestration, accelerating application development and delivering better, more cohesive experiences, and now extending that same approach to power AI agents and agentic applications. With over 1 billion downloads of its open-source software, Apollo has become the standard for working with GraphQL and powers the most innovative brands today. The Apollo GraphOS® platform provides the infrastructure to unify APIs into a composable graph, enabling teams to query data from anywhere and ship new experiences with speed and confidence. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Insight Partners, and many others, Apollo is headquartered in San Francisco. Learn more at: https://www.apollographql.com.