# Senior Software Engineer - Trust and Telemetry at Apollo GraphQL

- Company: Apollo GraphQL
- What the company does: Connect agents and apps to GraphQL and REST APIs with proven infrastructure trusted by enterprise leaders. Backed by Insight and Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.apollographql.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States or Canada (remote)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $165K to $195K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-30
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/apollo-graphql/fa16d41c-fa77-4c3b-9da4-edb90c87881f
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/apollo-graphql-senior-software-engineer-trust-and-telemetry/

## About the role

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.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Engineering