Staff Software Engineer, Apollo
Rust
GraphQL developer platform
Open for applications
GraphQL developer platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make application development easier, better, and accessible to more people by building open source tools and commercial services.
Role
Who you are
- We’re helping organizations deploy supergraphs at scale using Apollo Federation. Are you passionate about building secure, high-performance, and reliable infrastructure?
- Do you thrive on designing systems that meet the needs of the most demanding GraphQL workloads in the world? If so, we’d love to talk to you about joining us in creating next-generation GraphQL runtime infrastructure
- You have experience with Rust and enjoy writing performant, maintainable code
- You have expertise in systems engineering, including knowledge of stateless/fault-tolerant systems, event-driven patterns, and distributed paradigms
- You excel at cross-team collaboration and have a “rising tide lifts all boats” mentality, positively influencing others across the organization
- You’re passionate about GraphQL, modern developer tooling, and contributing to industry-leading innovations
- You have a growth mindset and actively seek opportunities to learn and stay current with industry trends
- Bonus points if you have experience with GraphQL or large-scale runtime systems!
What the job involves
- Our Runtime organization owns the critical tier of GraphOS - the underlying engine central to making GraphOS a highly performant, secure, governed, and reliable self-service GraphQL platform
- As a key member of the Router Core team, you’ll be at the heart of this mission, building and maintaining the de-facto standard GraphQL runtime platform, enabling engineering teams to ship faster and deliver richer experiences than ever before
- Build, test, and maintain fault-tolerant infrastructure for GraphQL runtime platforms, primarily in idiomatic Rust, ensuring security, performance, and reliability
- Operate and improve durable, stable public APIs used by the world’s most demanding GraphQL workloads
- Engage directly with users — whether community members or enterprise customers — to understand their needs, debug issues, and bring insights back to influence the platform’s evolution
- Design scalable, observable systems that integrate seamlessly into diverse customer infrastructure stacks, leveraging self-initiated research and real-world feedback
- Collaborate with engineers across teams using supportive communication and constructive code reviews to deliver cohesive solutions
- Mentor and guide teammates in architecting and writing idiomatic Rust code, while considering the end-to-end impact of changes and ensuring alignment with cross-domain concerns
- Lead architectural discussions and cross-team initiatives, driving impactful changes as a technical leader or coaching others to step into leadership roles
- Develop comprehensive technical designs and documentation that address cost efficiency, security, and observability
- Participate in on-call rotations to ensure the reliability of mission-critical systems
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2021
$130m
SERIES D
Jun 2019
$22m
SERIES C
Total funding: $183.2m
Company benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Generous time off
- Parental leave
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability insurance
- 401(k)
- Work from home opportunities
- Virtual “coffee chats” and team lunches, and an AV setup specifically tailored for remote experience
- Everyone-in-town weeks, where we fly all of our Apollo employees to San Francisco for an action packed week of work and play
Company values
- We strive for excellence through candid and constructive feedback.
- We are constantly teaching and learning from each other, allowing us to grow both professionally and personally.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Geoff Schmidt
(CEO)Co-founder & CEO of Meteor Development group and former software engineer at Asana.
Matt DeBergalis
(CTO)Founder of ActBlue and Meteor Development group. Former Engineer at NetApp. MSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.
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