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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Platform Engineer - **Company:** Apollo - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Continuous Integration, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Octopus Deploy, DataOps, Software Systems, Datadog, Circleci, Technical Debt, Event Driven Architecture, Kubernetes, Graphql, Terraform, Docker - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/senior-platform-engineer-apollo-graphql-8613892 ## About the Role * You have systems expertise and experience with stateless/fault tolerant systems, as well as familiarity with eventing patterns and distributed paradigms. * You've leveraged agentic tooling to not only enhance your day to day work, but detect and mitigate issues in production * You think about weighing technical and business trade-offs and are working at "seeing down the road and around corners." * You enjoy cross-team collaboration and believe in a "rising tides lifts all boats" mentality. You're a joy to those around you, bringing everyone along for the ride. * You are data-oriented and have leveraged data to make decisions in a concrete way. * You have familiarity with Kubernetes, GCP (preferably, but AWS or Azure is great too!), Terraform Nice to have * Bonus points for Helm, Docker, ArgoCD, CircleCI, DataDog, and of course GraphQL! ## Description Are you a talented and driven distributed systems engineer, with a proven track record, capable of leading cross-organizational features? Does tech debt quiver in its boots at the sound of your name? Do you butter your bread with evented systems? Have the letters C, Q, R, and S been ruined for you in an eventually consistent manner? Have we got news for you: you're not alone! In this role, you'll be a key contributor to our Platform Engineering team. You'll get the chance to hone your skills alongside some of the best Platform Engineers (think SRE meets Ops with a heavy focus on automation of everything). Our team's current focus is on Service Delivery (Kubernetes), Infrastructure Management (Terraform), CI/CD (Argo, Atlantis), and in general all things SLOs and Operational Excellence. Your teammates are talented folks who value code that is 80% of the value for 20% of the work, designs that are forward-thinking enough to be easily flexible for the next features, and leadership with a healthy dose of mindfulness and humility. What you'll do * You'll become a key contributor to the team, taking responsibility for the success of some of our subsystems. * You will be participating on medium to large impact team initiatives, and within a year be able to execute on such projects. * You'll help with interviewing potential teammates. * You'll create technical designs that proactively address cost efficiency, security, and observability. * You'll deliver technical plans, one-pagers, DRs, and other artifacts. * You'll work with Kubernetes, GCP, Helm, Terraform, DataDog, ArgoCD, CircleCI, Atlantis, Docker (the list goes on) to deliver your work. * You'll be responsible for improving developer velocity across the company (leveraging frameworks like DORA) and hardening our reliability and observability. * You'll participate in on-call rotations and help keep all of Apollo afloat * You'll be fully empowered to fix the root cause of issues, and ruthlessly quell any noisy monitors ## Related Videos - [We adopted DevOps and are Cloud-native, Now What?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/485-we-adopted-devops-and-are-cloud-native-now-what) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Debugging in the Dark](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1658-debugging-in-the-dark) - [Software Engineering Social Connection: Yubo’s lean approach to scaling an 80M-user infrastructure](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1583-software-engineering-social-connection-yubo-s-lean-approach-to-scaling-an-80m-user-infrastructure) - [The internal developer platform and golden paths: Scaffolding for cloud-native development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1039-the-internal-developer-platform-and-golden-paths-scaffolding-for-cloud-native-development) - [Docker build without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100114-docker-build-without-docker) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [The Best X (Twitter) Accounts for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/294-the-best-x-twitter-accounts-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 139 - Soft and hard queries](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/487-dev-digest-139-soft-and-hard-queries)