Staff Software Engineer - Trust and Telemetry

The role

You will take technical responsibility for subdomains like OAuth/SSO flows, audit logging, telemetry ingestion, or permissions models. You will work across the Trust and Telemetry domains to build features for the GraphOS platform.

What you will do

• Take technical responsibility for a TnT subdomain
• Write design docs, implement, test, deploy, and monitor work in production
• Design with observability, rollback paths, and incremental delivery
• Participate in on-call and postmortems
• Work with Product and Design to scope and prioritize work
• Contribute to code reviews, design discussions, and technical standards
• Give and receive constructive feedback

Required qualifications

• Hands-on experience building auth systems: OAuth 2.0/OIDC, SSO, token or credential management, RBAC/ABAC or fine-grained permissions, or audit logging
• Track record of leading multi-quarter or cross-team technical initiatives, mentoring engineers, and shaping technical direction
• Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals: consistency, failure modes, and resiliency patterns
• Experience building APIs and data models that other teams or customers depend on
• Proficiency in at least one modern backend language (TypeScript/Node, Go, Rust, Java, or similar)
• Experience with relational databases and at least one of: key-value, document, or time-series stores
• Hands-on ownership of services in production: on-call, incident response, postmortems
• Familiarity with observability tooling (metrics, tracing, logging) and SLOs
• Strong written and verbal communication, especially for design docs and async collaboration
• Ability to work with Product and Design to define scope, trade-offs, and delivery increments

About the company

The Trust & Telemetry team at Apollo powers the data and observability layer and the identity and access management layer of the GraphOS platform.