Staff Software Engineer - Federation

What you'll do

• Design, discuss, and implement new features in the open source Apollo Federation project, that helps combine GraphQL APIs into a unified supergraph.
• Collaborate with other engineers across the organization and within our open source community using supportive communication and constructive code-reviews
• Listen to the Apollo Federation community of developers, work with them to understand their needs, help develop project roadmaps that represent community expectations, and work on delivering this functionality.
• Communicate your ideas and designs clearly and upfront, aligning with technical Product Managers on their plans and documenting them for end users.

About you

• You understand the complexities of writing a language, compiler, or query engine. You are excited about optimization techniques, extensibility, and performance characteristics.
• You are knowledgeable in cloud and systems technologies, including the architectural principles and the specific tools of the trade, along with their strengths and weaknesses.
• Collaborating, mentoring, and empowering others to do their best work are core to how you work.
• You enjoy reviewing code, getting your code checked, and seeking feedback from your team early and often.
• You are pragmatic and know how to make tradeoffs between different designs in the pursuit of urgency. You optimize for overall business goals, not just immediate technical results.
• You deliver. Shipping working software and seeing it in the hands of end users brings you great satisfaction.
We don't expect anyone to meet 100% of these qualifications, so we hope you'll consider applying if this position sounds exciting!