# Senior Solution Engineer (Pre-sales) 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 (remote)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $185K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/apollo-graphql/f3c918e6-ac7f-4d9f-bc62-73a58b73ff4a
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/apollo-graphql-senior-solution-engineer-pre-sales/

## About the role

Own complex technical evaluations for strategic new and existing accounts: lead discovery, workshops, and solution design to deeply understand customer APIs, architectures, and constraints, and turn them into clear required capabilities and technical win plans. Design and present multi‑system solution architectures that show how Apollo’s supergraph, GraphOS, and tooling fit into modern cloud‑native environments —meeting customers where they are while charting a safe, future‑proof path forward.

## What they're looking for

- You see Solutions Engineering as part of the go‑to‑market engine: your purpose is not just to “be technical” but to help progress qualified opportunities toward successful outcomes—new ARR, healthy renewals, and meaningful expansions
- 4+ years in a pre‑sales Solutions Engineering or equivalent technical customer‑facing role (sales engineer, field engineer, customer engineer, or architect) working on complex B2B SaaS or infrastructure products
- Deep domain expertise around APIs and integration , with prior experience working both with teams who build APIs and with teams who consume them, integrating into existing architectures and tool stacks (CI/CD, observability, cloud, API gateways, etc.)
- Strong architecture and integration skills across modern web/cloud stacks —comfortable discussing REST/GraphQL, microservices, identity/security, and data flows, and designing multi‑system architectures that can be implemented in real‑world environments
- Proven track record owning complex technical evaluations end‑to‑end , including discovery, solution design, PoC implementation guidance, objection handling, and technical win for enterprise or upper‑mid‑market accounts
- Executive‑level communication and storytelling skills : able to move fluidly between deep technical detail and clear business value for developers, architects, product leaders, and executives, and to act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders

Tags: Sales