Senior Software Engineer - Trust and Telemetry
Apollo GraphQL3 months ago
Base Salary
$165k - $195k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own a Trust and Telemetry subdomain such as OAuth/SSO flows, audit logging, telemetry ingestion pipelines, or fine-grained permissions.
- Drive features end to end from design documentation and alignment through implementation, testing, deployment, and production monitoring.
- Design for enterprise reliability with observability, rollback paths, and incremental delivery.
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and postmortems.
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and partner engineering teams to scope and prioritize work.
- Contribute to code reviews, design discussions, and technical standards while giving and receiving feedback.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of experience designing and building backend services in production.
- Understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including consistency, failure modes, and resiliency patterns.
- Experience building APIs and data models used by other teams or customers.
- Proficiency in at least one modern backend language such as TypeScript/Node, Go, Rust, or Java.
- Experience with relational databases and at least one key-value, document, or time-series store.
- Hands-on production ownership including on-call, incident response, and postmortems.
- Familiarity with observability tooling and SLOs.
- Strong written and verbal communication for design documents and asynchronous collaboration.
- Ability to work with Product and Design on scope, trade-offs, and delivery increments.
- Familiarity with GraphQL, GraphOS, or API gateways is a bonus.
- Experience with OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, enterprise SSO, IAM, RBAC/ABAC, or audit logging is a bonus.
- Familiarity with AI agents, tool/function calling, or agentic middleware is a bonus.
- Experience with Kubernetes, containers, or service meshes is a bonus.
- Background in security engineering, compliance tooling, or enterprise identity is a bonus.
Tech Stack
About Apollo GraphQL
Apollo GraphQL builds open-source and commercial tools for adopting GraphQL, including Apollo Client, Apollo Router, and the GraphOS SaaS platform for orchestrating a unified API graph. It sells subscriptions and enterprise support for operating and governing federated GraphQL across teams. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company serves software engineering organizations building large-scale applications.