Senior Solutions Architect

What you'll do

• Partner with engineering teams across various companies to showcase the Apollo platform and guide them in consolidating GraphQL efforts into a unified, federated graph.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor throughout the enterprise journey, from proof of concept to production and company-wide expansion.
• Understand each customer’s goals, architecture,  and roadmap to design tailored strategies for successful Apollo adoption.
• Devise innovative solutions that accelerate federated graph rollout, surface new use cases, and unlock greater business value.
• Share insights from the field to improve Apollo’s documentation, open source libraries, and platform features.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Apollo’s product and engineering teams to help shape solutions to the challenges some of the world’s most advanced engineering organizations face.

Who you are

• You have 5+ years of relevant experience in engineering or architecture roles, including customer-facing or consultative experience.
• You're passionate about teams of all sizes succeeding at more than they thought possible.
• You value empathy and love talking with users and customers to solve their problems, which has made you a highly trusted and valued partner.
• You have a solid technical foundation in GraphQL and enterprise data delivery. You’re comfortable writing code, reviewing architecture, and working peer-to-peer with engineers.
• You have a track record of delivering timely results because you are organized and have follow-through.
• You have a creative, “can do” attitude. You find creative ways around obstacles and do not rest until the customer is satisfied.
• You’re passionate about mentoring and collaborating with others.

Technical Expertise

• Proven experience designing, building, and operating high-scale distributed systems, including hands-on implementation of backend GraphQL services. Experience with Apollo Federation or frontend GraphQL is a plus, but not required.
• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Java, or similar programming languages.
• Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure technologies such as Kubernetes, Istio, and OpenTelemetry.

Architectural and Platform Thinking

• Experience developing technical plans and documentation that enable customers to deliver reliable, scalable, and maintainable architectures aligned with their business goals.
• Deep understanding of API security, observability, and performance best practices in distributed systems.
• Sound judgment in making architectural decisions that balance immediate needs with long-term sustainability.

Communication Skills

• Strong customer-centric mindset with the ability to translate business objectives into scalable technical solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify and clearly convey complex technical concepts.
• Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally and influence technical strategy across diverse teams.