Senior Platform Engineer

Apollo GraphQL

Key contributor to Platform Engineering team at Apollo promoting automation across systems. Focused on Service Delivery, Infrastructure Management, and improving developer velocity company-wide.

Posted 6/30/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $165,000 - $195,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in systems design and implementation, focusing on cost efficiency, security, and observability. Proficient in leveraging tools and frameworks to enhance developer velocity and ensure system reliability.

Highest-signal resume keywords

KubernetesGCPTerraformDataDogCross-Team Collaboration

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Hard Skills

Systems ExpertiseStateless SystemsFault Tolerant SystemsTechnical DesignData-Driven Decision Making

Soft Skills

CollaborationProblem SolvingMentoring

Tools & Technologies

HelmArgoCDCircleCIDockerAgentic Tooling

Industry Keywords

Cost EfficiencyObservabilityDeveloper VelocityOn-Call RotationsProduction Issues

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ApolloAWSAzureDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

You have systems expertise and experience with stateless/fault tolerant systems
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

Benefits

Comp & perks

Apollo offers all U.S. employees a choice of 3 Anthem Blue Cross medical plans
California residents can also choose from an additional 2 Kaiser medical plans
Dental and Vision benefits are provided by Sun Life Financial