Staff Software Engineer, GraphQL Platform

Quick Facts

• Role: Staff Engineer, GraphQL Platform
• Focus: GraphQL platform reliability, scalability, performance, and developer experience

Description

The team manages an internal and product-facing GraphQL platform and is modernizing it to handle increasing upstream data complexity. The role will deliver new platform offerings, enforce GraphQL schema design and governance best practices, and improve automation, developer tooling, and onboarding materials. You will also participate in on-call support, incident response, and troubleshooting escalations.

Responsibilities

• Develop new platform offerings while ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance of the GraphQL platform
• Establish and enforce GraphQL schema design and governance best practices; participate in schema working groups and review/mentor cross-team contributions
• Build platform automation, developer tooling, and onboarding/kick-off guides for service adopters and subgraph contributors
• Support on-call, incident response, and troubleshooting for platform-level escalations
• Mentor team members and promote technical excellence and a culture of respect and constructive feedback
• Support and understand the organization’s mission around journalistic independence

Requirements

• 5+ years of software development with a focus on API development
• Expertise developing and scaling GraphQL APIs in production; knowledge of federation principles (Apollo or similar)
• At least one statically typed backend language experience (Go is used)
• Familiarity with automation for code quality, release management, and developer workflow improvements
• Experience delivering projects from design to implementation, testing, and documentation
• Values learning, continuous improvement, and constructive feedback

Benefits

• Base salary plus eligibility for variable pay (annual bonus and restricted stock)
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid vacation and paid sick days
• Paid parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement and professional development programs