Security Operations Engineer, Apollo
$140-200k
API orchestration platform for AI agents, web, and mobile apps
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API orchestration platform for AI agents, web, and mobile apps
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$140-200k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To help 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.
Role
Who you are
- A highly experienced SecOps engineer with a strong background in detection, response, and operational security
- Skilled at building and operating modern cloud security controls across AWS, GCP, or similar environments
- Comfortable working directly with engineers to embed operational security practices into their workflows
- Strong communicator who can explain threats and mitigations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Excited about the intersection of AI and security, with ideas for how to safely harness AI while managing its risks
- Motivated by outcomes - not just solving incidents, but building resilient systems and reducing risk at scale
- Minimum requirements
- 6+ years of experience in security operations, incident response, or related fields, including at least 2 years in a staff or senior-level role
- Deep expertise with detection and response in cloud-native environments
- Strong knowledge of SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar security frameworks
- Experience building and automating security tooling (SIEM, SOAR, custom scripts)
- Proven ability to lead or coordinate incident response across multiple teams
- Track record of influencing operational security culture and practices without direct authority
Desirable
- Experience working with AI security - either in detection, incident response, or product security contexts
- Prior experience supporting enterprise customer audits or due diligence processes
- Familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes, or other modern infrastructure stacks
- Hands-on experience with threat hunting and detection engineering
What the job involves
- As a senior member of Apollo’s Security Operations team, you’ll bring deep technical expertise and a collaborative mindset to help us protect and scale our infrastructure securely.
- This is a high-impact opportunity to shape how SecOps evolves - from detection engineering and incident response, to compliance, automation, and AI security. You’ll work directly with teams across Apollo to reduce risk, meet customer expectations, and ensure that security operations remain a foundation of trust as we scale
- Advance Apollo’s detection and response strategy in partnership with engineering and IT leadership
- Implement and maintain adherence to SOC 2 and other cloud security frameworks
- Handle escalations from Sales and Customer Success, including security questionnaires and customer audits
- Build and tune monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to improve visibility while reducing noise
- Drive automation of SecOps workflows to speed up investigation and response
- Guide secure adoption of AI across Apollo - from internal use by engineers to AI-powered product features
- Participate in our on-call rotation (we keep this lightweight and reasonable)
Our take
Apollo provides technology to help startups and enterprises build apps using GraphQL. It provides the data graph layer connecting modern apps to the cloud, and is the industry standard implementation for GraphQL.
Apollo claims that GraphQL wins out over competing REST APIs by offering a slicker, more bug-resistant service that does not require complex data fetching code. Certainly, the benefits of GraphQL become apparent with more complex web services or mobile applications, and this is the direction in which companies are increasingly headed as business shifts online. As such, it is unsurprising that Apollo count PayPal, New York Times, and Walmart among a roster of high-profile clients.
In recent years, Apollo has shifted online and its products are in high demand. Due to this, the company has both the resources and the strong industry reputation to continue offering it at the highest grade. Its 2022 launch of "Supergraph", a software layer designed to unify disparate data feeds and create one source for front-end developers, is a good demonstration of the company's continued dedication to innovating.
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Insights
126% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2021
$130m
SERIES D
Jun 2019
$22m
SERIES C
Total funding: $183.4m
Company benefits
- Globally distributed company: No return-to-office for us. We believe in the strengths that come with being a globally distributed company. Our 220+ Apollonauts located in 10 countries and 13 time zones thrive on working from home, learning from each other, and avoiding long commutes and traffic jams (although that hike to the kitchen for snacks between meetings can be a real journey).
- Flexible Time Off (FTO): Whether it’s planning a vacation or taking some time to focus on your well-being, one thing matters to us: you have time to focus on you. Rest up, and make sure you share those travel pics when you get back. *For our UK and Canada teammates, we also offer "flexible time off in practice" which folds in your country-specific nuances so you may share the benefits of taking vacation that is restful, rejuvenating, and individualized for your needs.
- Full benefits package: We provide a variety of meaningful and competitive benefits based on whether you’re located in UK, Canada, or USA. When you go through the recruitment process, we’ll walk you through your country-specific package. No matter what life throws at you, rest assured that you and your family will be covered.
- Parental leave: Welcoming a new child is going to change your world, and we want to be here to support you when you need it. We offer leave for birthing and non-birthing parents, and a personal leave specialist to guide you through the process.
- Streamlined collaboration: Virtual “coffee chats”, tools that help us work as a distributed company, and a culture of documentation and global inclusivity ensure we stay connected and collaborate throughout the week.
- Company Kickoff: We believe in building meaningful connections with each and every Apollonaut. Once a year, we get the whole team together for our annual Company Kickoff where we learn, align, and most importantly, build relationships with each other. We can’t wait to see you at the next one!
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Matt DeBergalis
(Co-Founder & CEO)Founder of ActBlue and Meteor Development group. Former Engineer at NetApp. MSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.
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