Senior Software Engineer – Trust and Telemetry

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of a TnT subdomain: Assume technical responsibility for a specific component, which may include our OAuth/SSO flows, audit logging infrastructure, telemetry ingestion pipelines, or a detailed permissions model.

• Lead features from start to finish: Create design documents, achieve alignment, implement, test, deploy, and oversee your work in a production environment.

• Build for enterprise-grade reliability: Design with observability, rollback mechanisms, and incremental delivery in consideration. Engage in on-call duties and participate in postmortems.

• Collaborate across various functions: Work closely with Product and Design teams to define and prioritize tasks. Communicate effectively with a focus on asynchronous collaboration.

• Develop your engineering skills: Contribute to code reviews, participate in design discussions, and uphold technical standards. Provide and receive constructive feedback within the team.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 2 years of experience in designing and developing backend services in a production setting.

• A strong grasp of distributed systems fundamentals, including consistency, failure modes, and resiliency patterns.

• Proven experience in constructing APIs and data models that are relied upon by other teams or clients.

• Proficiency in at least one contemporary backend programming language such as TypeScript/Node, Go, Rust, Java, or similar.

• Experience with relational databases and at least one type of data store: key-value, document, or time-series.

• Direct ownership of services in a production environment, including on-call responsibilities, incident response, and postmortems.

• Familiarity with observability tools (metrics, tracing, logging) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs).

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, particularly for design documents and asynchronous collaboration.

• Capability to work with Product and Design teams to establish scope, assess trade-offs, and determine delivery increments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Apollo provides all U.S. employees with a selection of 3 Anthem Blue Cross medical plans.

• California residents additionally have the option of choosing from 2 Kaiser medical plans.

• Dental and Vision benefits are offered through Sun Life Financial.

• The package includes equity and additional benefits.