Position : Sr Engineer (GraphQL Fedreation, Apollo Router, Rust/ Go/C++ ) : Only USA
Location : Sunnyvale CA/ Austin TX (Onsite or Remote)
Type of Job : Contract : 12 Months
Experience : 10+ Years
Minimum qualifications
6+ years building and operating production backend systems or API/middleware platforms
at scale.
Deep experience with GraphQL, and hands-on with federation / schema composition
(Apollo Federation or an equivalent).
Strong systems fundamentals: distributed systems, networking, caching, and performance
profiling of latency-sensitive services.
Proficiency in a systems language for router work — Rust (strongly preferred), or Go/C++
with a clear path to Rust — and the maturity to make build-vs-adopt decisions with
evidence.
Polyglot comfort across the subgraph stacks. Our services are built in a mix of
Node/TypeScript, Scala, and Java/Spring — you should be able to read, debug, and guide
teams in these, even if your deepest expertise is elsewhere.
Experience owning services in production: observability, SLOs, incident response
Preferred qualifications
Experience with GraphQL routers/gateways or API proxies (Apollo Router, Hive, Cosmo,
Envoy, or custom), including extending them with plugins/coprocessors.
Contributions to open-source infrastructure, or experience evaluating and adopting OSS
into a production platform.
Experience designing federated schemas across multiple teams and guiding others to do the
same.
Background in high-traffic, consumer-facing web platforms
