Senior Solutions Architect

What you'll do

• Lead engineering efforts executed with Apollo’s enterprise customers to expand GraphQL efforts, accelerating federated graph adoption and realizing Apollo GraphOS value.
• Work with senior engineering leaders to modernize the API Orchestration strategy, architecture & governance for their organizations.
• Design and implement GraphQL-based solutions, guiding teams through all stages of their GraphQL journey, from initial implementation to production rollout and continued adoption.
• Consider and advise on how solutions function across varied customer architectures and environments, ensuring effectiveness for diverse technical landscapes.
• Perform hands-on technical implementation and enablement to ensure successful adoption and customer satisfaction.
• Investigate, Scope and Deploy bespoke environment requirements using and building upon K8s Deployment examples, Router co-processors, Rhai scripts, Apollo Connectors configuration, Rover CLI, Apollo Platform APIs, OpenTelemetry integrations, and more.
• Work with Product, Engineering, and Support teams to address technical needs, resolve challenges, and advocate for customer-driven product improvements.
• Support Sales & Marketing as a technical expert, contributing to pre-sales activities, developing best practices, and promoting integrations and solutions around Apollo products.
• Identify use cases and opportunities for business value, helping customers and Apollo grow together.
• Create technical communications such as blog posts, documentation, reference architectures, and code samples; contribute feedback to OSS and Apollo products.
• Lead enablement via presentations, workshops, and mentoring, advancing best practices for adoption.
• Monitor and help scale production GraphQL workloads, collaborating with teams to ensure robust, observable, and resilient architectures.

Who you are

• 5+ years of experience in engineering, architecture, or technical consulting roles—including customer-facing or internal team leadership experience.
• Demonstrated experience designing and building production solutions with GraphQL for internal teams or external customers.
• Proficient in production-level GraphQL, with languages like Java, and JavaScript; exposure to Apollo GraphQL and federated architecture is a strong plus.
• Familiar with APIs, distributed systems, and the GraphQL ecosystem, including subgraph/client-side development, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, observability, and application performance monitoring (APM) tools.
• Experience monitoring and scaling production workloads in a real-world environment.
• Able to think critically about how solutions will perform and integrate in different environments and for various customer needs.
• Strong presentation, communication, and time management skills.
• Creative problem-solver with strong logic and reasoning abilities.
• Passionate about mentoring, collaboration, and enabling teams to do more than they thought possible.
• Willing and able to travel to company and customer events as required.

Nice to have

• Prior experience with Apollo GraphOS and/or Apollo Federation.
• Experience developing integrations or tooling in the GraphQL ecosystem.