Staff Software Engineer, Foundation

at  Meteor Development Group

Are you a talented and driven distributed systems engineer, with a proven track record, capable of leading cross-organizational features? Does tech debt quiver in its boots at the sound of your name? Do you butter your bread with evented systems? Have the letters C, Q, R, and S been ruined for you in an eventually consistent manner? Have we got news for you: you’re not alone!
In this high-impact role, you’ll be a leader on our Platform Engineering team. You’ll help foster our best Platform Engineers (think SRE meets Ops with a heavy focus on automation of everything) setting a consistent example for how we lead projects and how we maintain our documents, dashboards, and code bases. Our team’s current focus is on Service Delivery (Kubernetes), Infrastructure Management (Terraform), CI/CD (Argo, Atlantis), and in general all things SLOs and Operational Excellence. Your teammates are talented folks who value code that is 80% of the value for 20% of the work, designs that are forward-thinking enough to be easily flexible for the next features, and leadership with a healthy dose of mindfulness and humility.
Apollo is the worldwide leader of GraphQL innovation. Companies like Netflix, Walmart, Expedia, Peloton, DoorDash, The New York Times, and Zillow are just a small sample of Apollo’s customers. Our open-source product has millions of downloads every week. According to the new Gartner report, by 2027 more than 60% of enterprises will use GraphQL in production (up from less than 30% in 2024), and 30% of those enterprises will be using GraphQL federation, which Apollo pioneered.
GraphQL is transforming the software development space by creating a brand new layer in companies’ stacks called the supergraph that helps engineering teams ship faster and build richer experiences than ever before. Join us and build the future of Apollo’s internal Developer Platform! What You’ll Do:
You’ll become a key Domain owner for the team, taking responsibility for our cloud infrastructure in partnership with our Platform Security team, and especially for our Service Delivery Platform (namely K8s).
You will lead cross-team groups of developers and shepherd large-impact initiatives along, either as the technical leader or coaching members of the team to become technical leaders.
You’ll mentor junior members of the team and 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.

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