Scale the future of Apollo’s cloud services to support our ever growing team, codebase, and of course major world-wide customers (NYT, Walmart, and Expedia to name a few). Your contributions will focus primarily on our internal development lifecycle, scaling our support for services out in a developer-centric manner. Observability, reliability, and scalability are the name of the game.

Whether your passion is in instrumenting micro-services, hardening an API gateway, just “throwing a queue at it”, or getting into the nitty-gritty of K8s topologies, you will feel right at home. Projects within immediate scope will touch our CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes installation, and Druid cluster. Your aim will be to scope our projects and problems such that your teammates can hit the ground running. Your abilities will be well suited to help us look ahead toward where our next bottlenecks and hot spots will be.

Different from a traditional ops position, this role sits in the in-between of infrastructure and code. Instead of scaling deployments, we focus on writing autoscaling code. Instead of doing lock step deploys, we employ continuous delivery. Using tools like feature flags over deploy branches. We aim to make Apollo more dependable by providing the communal, plug and play building blocks, that make simple services simple to debug, and simpler to support.

The goal of our team is not measured in our overall productivity, but rather in the gains of other teams. We focus on efforts which enable and nurture the growth of other developer teams at Apollo. You’ll be helping your teammates, and shaping how we work in a major way every day.

What you’ll do

Shape our cloud infrastructure and service architecture and help leverage areas of strength while shoring up weaknesses to allow Apollo to grow as the most trusted GraphQL leader.
Lead development on things like our service chassis, and reporting/metrics pipeline. You’ll leverage tools such as: Kotlin, Terraform, K8s, Datadog, and CircleCI.
Participate on our on-call rotation, helping to make it more manageable
Nurture our cloud installation, seeing it scale well beyond its current scope. You’ll have the opportunity to solve some of the more gnarly problems companies see when users, traffic, and employees increase by orders of magnitude
Work together with a group of reliable, and empathetic people. You’ll be a mentor and be able to grow alongside your teammates.

Who you are

You enjoy pairing technical solutions with the right level of effort. You have experience at a variety of different scales, both in terms of data throughput and codebase collaborators
Experience being on call for production services and know how to handle after-hours incidents
Can harden distributed software systems, maintain K8s installations, improve CI and CD, and work to make code more observable with a tool like Datadog. Bonus: you’ve got PostgreSQL and/or Druid chops.
You have a solid knowledge of different testing patterns and software development practices. You know the pros and cons of unit tests and test driven development vs generative tests and “testing in production”.
You treat code as a craft. You have a bias for deprecation over refactor, and refactor over rebuild, but you’re not against rebuilding when appropriate (in our opinion, the best kind of refactor is the delete key). You aren’t attached to the code you write, and appreciate understandable simple code.
You’re data driven. You rely on the insights we have at our disposal to make informed system-level decisions, test hypotheses, and feed into prioritization. Additionally, when we’re missing a data point, you work to get the necessary tools
A big plus: you're excited about working with GraphQL and influencing its technical future. You're excited to work at a devtools company where the tools you're building will actually improve your own workflow.

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