Senior Solutions Architect, Apollo

• 5+ years of experience in engineering, architecture, or technical consulting roles—including customer-facing or internal team leadership experience
• Demonstrated experience designing and building production solutions with GraphQL for internal teams or external customers
• Proficient in production-level GraphQL, with languages like Java, and JavaScript; exposure to Apollo GraphQL and federated architecture is a strong plus
• Familiar with APIs, distributed systems, and the GraphQL ecosystem, including subgraph/client-side development, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, observability, and application performance monitoring (APM) tools
• Experience monitoring and scaling production workloads in a real-world environment
• Able to think critically about how solutions will perform and integrate in different environments and for various customer needs
• Strong presentation, communication, and time management skills
• Creative problem-solver with strong logic and reasoning abilities
• Passionate about mentoring, collaboration, and enabling teams to do more than they thought possible
• Willing and able to travel to company and customer events as required

Desirable

• As a Senior Solutions Architect at Apollo, you’ll be one of the leaders helping major product teams go from proof-of-concept to production with a federated graph
• You’ll join a talented team at the forefront of designing GraphQL-based distributed architectures while establishing and communicating industry best practices
• You’ll harness your APIs and Software Architecture knowledge to serve as a trusted technical advisor and advocate for our enterprise customers
• You’ll develop creative solutions that accelerate customer adoption of GraphQL and federated graphs that create tangible business value
• You’ll also play an important role in shaping Apollo's future by communicating customer feedback to the product and engineering teams
• If collaborating with a tight-knit team on some of the most interesting and innovative projects in the GraphQL space today sounds like fun to you, then we’d love to have you join our team as a Solutions Architect!
• Partner with engineering teams across various companies to showcase the Apollo platform and guide them in consolidating GraphQL efforts into a unified, federated graph
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor throughout the enterprise journey, from proof of concept to production and company-wide expansion
• Understand each customer’s goals, architecture, and roadmap to design tailored strategies for successful Apollo adoption
• Devise innovative solutions that accelerate federated graph rollout, surface new use cases, and unlock greater business value
• Share insights from the field to improve Apollo’s documentation, open source libraries, and platform features
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Apollo’s product and engineering teams to help shape solutions to the challenges some of the world’s most advanced engineering organizations face