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Staff Software Engineer, Rust

Apollo GraphQL · United States or Canada (remote) · Remote

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About Apollo GraphQL

Connect agents and apps to GraphQL and REST APIs with proven infrastructure trusted by enterprise leaders. Backed by Insight and Y Combinator.

About the role

Build, test, and maintain fault-tolerant infrastructure for GraphQL runtime platforms, primarily in idiomatic Rust, ensuring security, performance, and reliability. Triage, debug, and resolve escalations from enterprise customers running some of the largest GraphQL deployments in the world — hundreds of subgraphs processing trillions of requests per month.

What they're looking for

  • You have experience with Rust and enjoy writing performant, maintainable code
  • You have expertise in systems engineering, including knowledge of stateless/fault-tolerant systems, event-driven patterns, and distributed paradigms
  • You have strong debugging instincts and are energized by hands-on operational work, not just feature development
  • You excel at cross-team collaboration and have a "rising tide lifts all boats" mentality, positively influencing others across the organization
  • You're passionate about GraphQL, modern developer tooling, and contributing to industry-leading innovations
  • You have a growth mindset and actively seek opportunities to learn and stay current with industry trends
More about this role

Are you passionate about building secure, high-performance, and reliable infrastructure? Do you thrive on diagnosing and solving hard problems in systems that meet the needs of the most demanding GraphQL workloads in the world? If so, we'd love to talk to you about joining us in operating and evolving next-generation GraphQL runtime infrastructure.

The GraphOS organization owns the critical tier of Apollo's platform — the underlying engine central to making GraphOS a highly performant, secure, governed, and reliable self-service GraphQL platform. As a key member of the GraphOS NA team, you'll be at the heart of this mission, owning the Router and enabling engineering teams to ship faster and deliver richer experiences than ever before.

Build, test, and maintain fault-tolerant infrastructure for GraphQL runtime platforms, primarily in idiomatic Rust, ensuring security, performance, and reliability.

Triage, debug, and resolve escalations from enterprise customers running some of the largest GraphQL deployments in the world — hundreds of subgraphs processing trillions of requests per month.

Operate and improve durable, stable public APIs used by the world's most demanding GraphQL...

Read the full posting on Apollo GraphQL's site ↗

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