United States or Canada (remote); San Francisco Remote (Global) Employment

Apollo is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer

Responsibilities

  • Become a key contributor to the team, taking responsibility for the success of some of our subsystems
  • Participate in medium to large impact team initiatives
  • Within a year, be able to execute on such projects
  • Help with interviewing potential teammates
  • Create technical designs that proactively address cost efficiency, security, and observability
  • Deliver technical plans, one-pagers, DRs, and other artifacts
  • Work with Kubernetes, GCP, Helm, Terraform, DataDog, ArgoCD, CircleCI, Atlantis, Docker to deliver your work
  • Be responsible for improving developer velocity across the company (leveraging frameworks like DORA)
  • Harden reliability and observability
  • Participate in on-call rotations and help keep all of Apollo afloat
  • Be fully empowered to fix the root cause of issues, and ruthlessly quell any noisy monitors

Requirements

  • Systems expertise and experience with stateless/fault tolerant systems
  • Familiarity with eventing patterns and distributed paradigms
  • Leveraged agentic tooling to not only enhance your day to day work, but detect and mitigate issues in production
  • Think about weighing technical and business trade-offs and are working at 'seeing down the road and around corners.'
  • Enjoy cross-team collaboration and believe in a 'rising tides lifts all boats' mentality
  • Are a joy to those around you, bringing everyone along for the ride
  • Are data-oriented and have leveraged data to make decisions in a concrete way
  • Have familiarity with Kubernetes, GCP (preferably, but AWS or Azure is great too!), Terraform

Nice to Have

  • Bonus points for Helm, Docker, ArgoCD, CircleCI, DataDog, and of course GraphQL!

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Benefits
  • Choice of 3 Anthem Blue Cross medical plans for U.S. employees
  • California residents can also choose from an additional 2 Kaiser medical plans
  • Dental and Vision benefits provided by Sun Life Financial

Work Arrangement

Remote (Worldwide) — US, Canada

Additional Information

  • This is a remote position that can be done from anywhere in the US or Canada (Canada has a different compensation range)
  • Apollo is an E-Verify employer and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.
  • California residents applying for positions at Apollo can see our E-Verify
Required Skills
KubernetesGoogle Cloud Platform
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Apollo
Apollo powers some of the world’s largest GraphQL platforms for teams building complex, high-performance applications at scale. The company is evolving into a core piece of modern application infrastructure — helping teams orchestrate data, APIs, and increasingly AI-driven systems through a single, cohesive platform.
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Job Details
Department Engineering
Category infrastructure
Posted 2 months ago