[Remote] Senior Platform Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Apollo GraphQL is a leading company in the field of distributed systems engineering, and they are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join their team. The role involves contributing to platform engineering initiatives, improving developer velocity, and ensuring system reliability and observability.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

• You have systems expertise and experience with stateless/fault tolerant systems, as well as familiarity with eventing patterns and distributed paradigms
• You've leveraged agentic tooling to not only enhance your day to day work, but detect and mitigate issues in production
• You think about weighing technical and business trade-offs and are working at 'seeing down the road and around corners.'
• You enjoy cross-team collaboration and believe in a 'rising tides lifts all boats' mentality. You're a joy to those around you, bringing everyone along for the ride
• You are data-oriented and have leveraged data to make decisions in a concrete way
• You have familiarity with Kubernetes, GCP (preferably, but AWS or Azure is great too!), Terraform
• Bonus points for Helm, Docker, ArgoCD, CircleCI, DataDog, and of course GraphQL!

Company Overview

Apollo GraphQL helps developers build better software with a declarative, graph-based approach to API orchestration. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.apollographql.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Apollo GraphQL has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3 in 2025, 4 in 2024, 2 in 2023, 5 in 2022, 1 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.