Senior Software Engineer - Trust and Telemetry
Apollo GraphQLBase 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 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.