Apollo’s GraphOS platform helps API platform developers around the world build and operate their data access layers, at scale. It is used in production by some of today's largest and most innovative companies including Netflix, Expedia, Peloton, DoorDash, The New York Times, and many more. GraphOS fundamentally democratizes data and accelerates business transformation. Our Runtime organization owns the critical tier of GraphOS - Core Router and Apollo Federation - the underlying engine powering GraphOS, making it a highly performant, secure, governed, and reliable self-service GraphQL platform.
We are looking for an experienced engineering leader to lead a team playing a critical role in advancing the federation capabilities of Apollo's graph technologies, ensuring compatibility, scalability, and high performance for our users.
What You'll Do
- Manage a team of engineers, ensuring high-quality deliverables and aligning them with the organization’s long-term vision.
- Drive team-level execution by prioritizing and allocating resources to ensure timely delivery of high-quality, scalable solutions.
- Lead teams through change by providing clear direction, fostering alignment, and refining team charters as needed.
- Foster a collaborative, high-performing engineering culture, encouraging innovation and supporting team growth.
- Work closely with product and engineering leadership to set the technical direction, refine roadmaps, shape the organization, and ensure successful delivery of high-impact projects.
- Collaborate with other engineering leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver impactful strategic projects, shaping the future of GraphOS infrastructure.
- Foster a high-performing, collaborative team environment based on trust, autonomy, and psychological safety.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition to define hiring strategies, and actively attract and retain top engineering talent.
- Participate in an on-call rotation as necessary.
Who You Are
- You thrive in leading through complexity and ambiguity, making informed decisions and prioritizing effectively.
- You have a track record of successfully leading teams through change by refining their focus, shaping team charters, and aligning priorities to meet evolving business needs.
- You care deeply about people and find motivation in helping others succeed.
- You bring experience from developer tooling, infrastructure, or similar spaces, and are excited to be part of building the infrastructure of the future.
- You have a growth mindset, continually seeking to learn and improve your leadership.
- You embody the leadership principles of creating clarity, unlocking performance, and delivering results.
- You are familiar with all aspects of software development from architecture to deployment and maintenance.
- You are a thoughtful leader with experience in hiring, coaching and retaining engineering talent with diverse needs for personal and professional growth.
Whether 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.
Equal to all of that, 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.
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.
Equal Opportunity: Apollo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace dedicated to pursuing and hiring a talented and diverse workforce.
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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.
