Senior Platform Engineer at Apollo GraphQL | CA | Rezi

Senior Platform Engineer at Apollo GraphQL

Senior Platform Engineer

Apollo GraphQL · CA

2 months ago

Senior Platform Engineer

Apollo GraphQL · CA

2 months ago
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About the Role

In this role, you’ll be a key contributor to our Platform Engineering team, honing your skills alongside experienced Platform Engineers with a focus on automation. Our team focuses on Service Delivery (Kubernetes), Infrastructure Management (Terraform), CI/CD (Argo, Atlantis), and SLOs/Operational Excellence. You will be empowered to fix root causes of issues and improve developer velocity and system reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Become a key contributor to the team, taking responsibility for the success of subsystems.
  • Participate in medium to large impact team initiatives and execute on such projects within a year.
  • Help with interviewing potential teammates.
  • Create technical designs that proactively address cost efficiency, security, and observability.
  • Deliver technical plans, one-pagers, DRs, and other artifacts.
  • Work with Kubernetes, GCP, Helm, Terraform, DataDog, ArgoCD, CircleCI, Atlantis, Docker to deliver work.
  • Improve developer velocity across the company (leveraging frameworks like DORA) and harden reliability and observability.
  • Participate in on-call rotations.
  • Fix the root cause of issues and quell noisy monitors.

Requirements

  • Systems expertise and experience with stateless/fault tolerant systems.
  • Familiarity with eventing patterns and distributed paradigms.
  • Leveraged agentic tooling to enhance daily work and detect/mitigate production issues.
  • Ability to weigh technical and business trade-offs and anticipate future needs.
  • Enjoy cross-team collaboration and believe in a 'rising tides lifts all boats' mentality.
  • Data-oriented and have leveraged data to make concrete decisions.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, GCP (or AWS/Azure), and Terraform.

Skills

  • Distributed systems
  • Evented systems
  • Kubernetes
  • GCP
  • Helm
  • Terraform
  • DataDog
  • ArgoCD
  • CircleCI
  • Atlantis
  • Docker
  • GraphQL
  • Agentic tooling
  • DORA frameworks

Location

  • Remote

Work Type

  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • Proven track record
  • Minimum requirements

About the Company

  • 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.
  • Teammates 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.