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Original Job Post

Apollo GraphQL · 2 days ago

Senior Software Engineer, Foundation Team

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$144K/yr - $182K/yr

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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 rotation.

Qualification

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Systems ExpertiseStateless/Fault-Tolerant SystemsEventing PatternsDistributed ParadigmsBusiness Trade-OffsKubernetesGCPTerraformTechnical DesignsSecurityObservabilityHelmDataDogArgoCDCircleCIAtlantisDockerDeveloper VelocityOn-Call RotationProblem-SolvingCross-Team CollaborationData-Oriented Decision-MakingGraphQL

Required

Systems expertise and experience with stateless/fault-tolerant systems

Familiarity with eventing patterns and distributed paradigms

Ability to weigh technical and business trade-offs

Cross-team collaboration skills

Data-oriented decision-making

Experience with Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform

Ability to create technical designs addressing cost efficiency, security, and observability

Experience with Kubernetes, GCP, Helm, Terraform, DataDog, ArgoCD, CircleCI, Atlantis, Docker

Experience in improving developer velocity and reliability

Participation in on-call rotation

Preferred

Experience with Helm, Docker, ArgoCD, CircleCI, DataDog, GraphQL

Benefits

Equity

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Company

Apollo GraphQL

Apollo helps engineering teams build unified graphs to accelerate application development and deliver better, more cohesive experiences.

Founded in 2016

San Francisco, California, USA

51-200 employees

http://www.apollographql.com

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