Senior Software Engineer - Orchestration Language Team

Apollo GraphQL, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

United States or Canada (remote)

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Design, build, and maintain Apollo MCP Server and GraphOS MCP Server/Tools in idiomatic Rust, keeping pace with an actively evolving MCP specification (including upcoming breaking changes).
• Ship customer-driven improvements quickly — this team currently releases new MCP capabilities on a near-weekly basis in direct response to customer needs.
• Design and build "Skills" that make agent workflows useful in production, and help package/distribute them across Apollo's product surfaces.
• Improve tool discovery and introspection so AI agents can more reliably find and use the right GraphQL capabilities (e.g., tool search, partitioning tool sets, reducing context size for agents).
• Expand GraphOS platform capabilities (schema checks, composition, health data, etc.) as MCP tools for AI agents.
• Engage directly with customers and the community to understand needs, debug issues, and bring insights back to influence the roadmap.
• Collaborate with engineers across Federation, Connectors, and Client teams as MCP/Skills work intersects with core GraphQL Federation.
• Own projects end-to-end — from design doc through delivery — and contribute to codebase health, bug fixes, and operational reliability, not just new feature work.
• Participate in a lightweight on-call rotation (this team's on-call load is notably light).

🎯 Requirements

• Experience with Rust and enjoy writing performant, maintainable code (candidates with a strong low-level systems background in C/C++ who are ramping into Rust will also be considered).
• Expertise in systems engineering — stateless/fault-tolerant systems, event-driven patterns, distributed paradigms, and/or protocol implementation.
• Active, hands-on user of AI developer tools and can speak concretely to how you use them, where they fall short, and what "good" looks like.
• Strong debugging instincts and are energized by hands-on operational work, not just feature development.
• Excel at cross-team collaboration and bring a "rising tide lifts all boats" mentality.
• Growth mindset and actively seek to learn and stay current with industry trends, especially in the fast-moving AI/agent space.

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to work on a strategically important surface in the platform.
• Room to work across the boundary, contributing to composition and query planning where MCP/Skills work intersects with core Federation.
• Collaborative environment with incredible teammates.
• Challenging work that allows for career growth.
• Opportunity to accomplish the unattainable.
• Lightweight on-call rotation.

Skills & Technologies

Rust

GraphQL

REST

Senior

Remote

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About Apollo GraphQL, Inc.

Apollo GraphQL provides a GraphQL platform for building, managing, and scaling APIs. Its open-source client and server libraries integrate with existing backends, offering schema management, query planning, performance monitoring, and a cloud-hosted registry. The company targets engineering teams needing unified data layers across microservices, mobile, and web applications, delivering tools that accelerate development and improve application performance.

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