Senior Software Engineer, Apollo
AI Runtime
$157-198.9k
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API orchestration platform for AI agents, web, and mobile apps
Open for applications
API orchestration platform for AI agents, web, and mobile apps
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$157-198.9k
More information about location
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
- Expertise in agent-to-tool orchestration, routing, and coordination in scalable, fault-tolerant systems
- Deep expertise in Rust programming language
- Strong background in distributed systems, server architecture, and high-performance backend development
- Proven experience with protocol design, message routing, and server-side orchestration frameworks
- Experience building and maintaining robust runtime infrastructure that supports AI-driven workflows and enables reliable agent-to-tool interactions
- Proven experience with protocol design, message routing, and building server-side frameworks that enable scalable, reliable multi-tool agent workflows
- Hands-on experience with observability, monitoring, and debugging frameworks for complex systems
- Passion for clean, maintainable code, high system reliability, and scalable architecture
- Experience in strategic system design, making architectural trade-offs, and planning for long-term scalability and maintainability
- Strong technical leadership and mentorship, including guiding junior engineers and driving engineering best practices across teams
- Ability to influence cross-team architecture decisions and align engineering efforts with product and business objectives
- Production ownership experience: leading incident response, debugging, and performance optimization in high-impact backend systems
Desirable
- Exposure to AI/ML-enabled developer tooling or autonomous system orchestration
- Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, containerization, or orchestration frameworks
- Experience with performance optimization and cost-efficient scaling of high-throughput distributed systems
What the job involves
- We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help power the future of agentic AI workflows. You’ll take our MCP Server to the next level, turning it into an enterprise-grade service that lets diverse tools and systems be exposed effortlessly to AI agents.
- Looking ahead, you’ll also help architect the MCP Gateway—a new layer that will route requests across tools, enforce policies, and provide the runtime foundation for scalable multi-agent systems. Along the way, you’ll tackle challenges in scalability, performance, and developer experience to ensure our platform feels seamless, powerful, and enterprise-ready
- The Graph DX AI Runtime Team builds and maintains the MCP Server and Gateway—the backbone of agent-to-tool communication and the routing layer that keeps everything flowing.
- We make it simple for developers to wire up agents, orchestrate workflows, and scale interactions reliably. Our focus is on speed, security, and seamless integration, so teams can spend less time managing infrastructure and more time building intelligent experiences
- Scale an enterprise AI/MCP Server and Gateway that powers multi-agent workflows across Apollo, including routing, orchestration, and integration boundaries
- Implement robust server infrastructure to ensure reliability, performance, and security at scale
- Build and maintain tools for agent discovery, communication, and coordination
- Define deployment strategies and runtime optimizations to maximize efficiency and minimize operational overhead
- Develop frameworks and patterns that enable seamless multi-agent collaboration and AI-driven orchestration
- Integrate observability, logging, and monitoring for full visibility into server and agent behavior
- Explore and implement AI-enhanced developer workflows to optimize orchestration and agent interactions
- Collaborate with teams within our org to ensure the MCP Server meets evolving product and developer needs
- Technical Challenges You’ll Tackle
- Build and scale the MCP Gateway—Apollo’s routing layer for agentic workflows—ensuring tools and services can be discovered, invoked, and orchestrated reliably across diverse environments
- Design and implement high-performance routing infrastructure with reliability, scalability, and security at its core
- Build and maintain routing patterns and coordination mechanisms that let agents interact with the right tools at the right time
- Define deployment strategies and runtime optimizations to minimize latency and operational overhead
- Explore and implement AI-driven routing strategies to optimize context retrieval, reduce cost, and improve decision accuracy
- Collaborate with teams across Apollo to ensure the MCP Server and Gateway integrates seamlessly with Apollo’s control plane for AI tools
- Integrate observability and monitoring into the routing layer to provide full visibility into traffic flows, tool availability, and agent interactions
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
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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