
Full-stack Software Engineer (Product)
Apollo Research8 days ago
London, United Kingdom or San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$222k - $290k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship Watcher features across the full stack, including agent hooks, CLI tooling, ingestion and grading pipelines, monitoring UIs, and dashboards.
- Own features from ambiguous requirements and customer conversations through technical decisions, production deployment, and iteration.
- Build integrations with coding agents, LLM gateways, enterprise security systems, SIEM platforms, and security operations workflows.
- Design and operate real-time backend systems handling large volumes of agent logs, including scalable data models and storage.
- Own reliability through error handling, graceful degradation, logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and low-latency blocking paths.
- Support cloud-hosted, on-premises, and local deployment models, including tenant isolation, encryption, and access controls.
- Productionize monitoring research such as new monitors, grading strategies, and backtesting results.
- Talk to customers, debug issues in customer environments, and incorporate feedback into the product roadmap.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience building and operating production software with real users.
- Strong backend and frontend capability, including APIs, data pipelines, databases, cloud infrastructure, and modern web UI development.
- Strong working experience with Python and TypeScript.
- Experience using Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar tools heavily, or experience building agents or agent tooling.
- Ability to own substantial product areas, make decisions with incomplete information, and deliver at high volume.
- Ability to talk to users, translate vague requirements into concrete designs, and make product tradeoffs.
- Experience with developer tools, monitoring or observability systems, security products, real-time or large-scale data processing, enterprise or on-premises deployments, or early-stage startups is valued.
- Experience building LLM-powered applications, including LLM-as-judge systems, evaluation pipelines, or familiarity with Inspect, is valued.
- Formal AI safety and management experience are not required.
Benefits
- Market-competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.
- Flexible work hours and schedule, unlimited vacation, and unlimited sick leave.
- Up to six months of paid parental leave.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Retirement savings with competitive employer matching, including 401(k) for US employees.
- Lunch, dinner, and snacks provided on workdays.
- Paid work trips, staff retreats, business trips, and relevant conferences.
- $1,000 USD annual professional development budget.
- Relocation support and visa fees if applicable.
- Full-time, in-person work from the London or San Francisco office, with flexible hours and some work-from-home arrangements.
- The company provides an effectively unlimited token budget for engineering work.