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[Remote] Senior Software Engineer - Trust and Telemetry

Remote · Australia Full-time

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Apollo GraphQL is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on the Trust and Telemetry team. In this role, you will take ownership of features and systems, collaborate with product and design teams, and ensure enterprise reliability through observability and monitoring.

Responsibilities

  • Own a TnT subdomain: Take technical responsibility for a component—whether it's our OAuth/SSO flows, audit logging infrastructure, telemetry ingestion pipelines, or fine-grained permissions model
  • Drive features end-to-end: Write design docs, get alignment, implement, test, deploy, and monitor your work in production
  • Build for enterprise reliability: Design with observability, rollback paths, and incremental delivery in mind. Participate in on-call and postmortems
  • Collaborate across functions: Work directly with Product and Design to scope and prioritize work. Communicate clearly and async-first
  • Grow as an engineer: Contribute to code reviews, design discussions, and technical standards. Receive and give constructive feedback within the team

Skills

  • 2+ years of experience designing and building backend services in production
  • Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: consistency, failure modes, and resiliency patterns
  • Experience building APIs and data models that other teams or customers depend on
  • Proficiency in at least one modern backend language (TypeScript/Node, Go, Rust, Java, or similar)
  • Experience with relational databases and at least one of: key-value, document, or time-series stores
  • Hands-on ownership of services in production: on-call, incident response, postmortems
  • Familiarity with observability tooling (metrics, tracing, logging) and SLOs
  • Strong written and verbal communication, especially for design docs and async collaboration
  • Ability to work with Product and Design to define scope, trade-offs, and delivery increments
  • Familiarity with GraphQL, GraphOS, or API gateways
  • Experience with OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, or enterprise SSO flows
  • Experience with IAM systems, RBAC/ABAC models, or audit logging
  • Familiarity with AI agents, tool/function calling, or agentic middleware
  • Experience with cloud-native architectures (Kubernetes, containers, service meshes)
  • Background in security engineering, compliance tooling, or enterprise identity

Company Overview

  • Apollo GraphQL helps developers build better software with a declarative, graph-based approach to API orchestration. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.apollographql.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Apollo GraphQL has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3 in 2025, 4 in 2024, 2 in 2023, 5 in 2022, 1 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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