In this role, you’ll be a key contributor to our Platform Engineering team. You'll get the chance to hone your skills alongside some of the best Platform Engineers (think SRE meets Ops with a heavy focus on automation of everything). 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.What you'll doYou’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 afloatYou’ll be fully empowered to fix the root cause of issues, and ruthlessly quell any noisy monitorsWho you are — Minimum requirementsYou have systems expertise and experience with stateless/fault tolerant systems, as well as familiarity with eventing patterns and distributed paradigms.You’ve leveraged agentic tooling to not only enhance your day to day work, but detect and mitigate issues in productionYou 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!), TerraformNice to haveBonus points for Helm, Docker, ArgoCD, CircleCI, DataDog, and of course GraphQL!About ApolloWhether you binge-watch a series on Netflix, plan faraway vacations from your phone, or read international news online, you've likely used Apollo's technology this week. Apollo supports some of the largest GraphQL platforms in the world.We're not looking to rest on our laurels though — we're aiming to change how software is built. Apollo wants to empower every software team to build an amazing user experience across any number of clients, without dealing with a barrage of API endpoints.Apollo is intent on becoming the company where you can see your career grow through challenging work, collaborating with incredible teammates, and accomplishing the unattainable.Compensation & Benefits: At Apollo, we strive to provide competitive, market-informed compensation whilst ensuring consistency within the team in each country. We make hiring decisions based on your skills, experience, and our overall assessment of what we learned during the hiring process.In addition to the U.S. base salary range, we also provide equity and benefits. Apollo offers all U.S. employees a choice of 3 Anthem Blue Cross medical plans and California residents can also choose from an additional 2 Kaiser medical plans. Dental and Vision benefits are provided by Sun Life Financial.Location: This is a remote position that can be done from anywhere in the US or Canada (Canada has a different compensation range).Equal Opportunity: Apollo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a talented and diverse workforce.Privacy: California residents applying for positions at Apollo can see our privacy policy here.E-Verify: Apollo is an E-Verify employer and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. For more information please visit E-Verify.Compensation Range: $165K - $195KThe posted range represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation we review the market rate of each candidate which can include a variety of factors including qualifications, experience, and location. Additional benefits are shared as part of the job posting.
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