Apollo GraphQL

Senior Software Engineer - Orchestration Language Team

United States or Canada (remote) · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 14 days ago

RustC++GraphQLRESTAgentic AIExcelSystems EngineeringCollaboration

About the role

We're hiring an additional engineer to work across MCP Server, MCP Apps, GraphOS MCP Tools, and the broader Skills ecosystem.
For someone with a strong interest in Federation, there's room to work across the boundary, contributing to composition and query planning where MCP/Skills work intersects with core Federation.

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).
Design and build "Skills" that make agent workflows useful in production, and help package/distribute them across Apollo's product surfaces.
Collaborate with engineers across Federation, Connectors, and Client teams as MCP/Skills work intersects with core GraphQL Federation.
Apollo supports some of the largest GraphQL platforms in the world.
Apollo wants to empower every software team to build an amazing user experience across any number of clients, without dealing with a barrage of API endpoints.

You have 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).
You have expertise in systems engineering - stateless/fault-tolerant systems, event-driven patterns, distributed paradigms, and/or protocol implementation.
You have strong debugging instincts and are energized by hands-on operational work, not just feature development.
You have a growth mindset and actively seek to learn and stay current with industry trends, especially in the fast-moving AI/agent space.

Direct experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol) - e.g., you've implemented an MCP server, read the spec draft, or built tools/integrations against it.
Experience with GraphQL or large-scale runtime systems.
Experience navigating high-escalation or high-incident environments.
Whether you binge-watch a series on Netflix, plan faraway vacations from your phone, or read international news online, you've likely used Apollo's technology this week.
We're not looking to rest on our laurels though - we're aiming to change how software is built.
Apollo is intent on becoming the company where you can see your career grow through challenging work, collaborating with incredible teammates, and accomplishing the unattainable.

These components let AI agents discover, query, and act on federated graphs through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
As AI agents become a key consumer of GraphQL APIs, this is becoming one of the most strategically important surfaces in the platform.

Expand GraphOS platform capabilities (schema checks, composition, health data, etc.) as MCP tools for AI agents.
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.

Engage directly with customers and the community to understand needs, debug issues, and bring insights back to influence the roadmap.
We're looking for someone who moves fluidly between "what should this do" and "make this reliable."

This listing is sourced directly from Apollo GraphQL's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.