Principal Software Engineer (Hybrid, San Francisco)
at Apollo
- Seniority
- Staff Principal
- Work model
- Hybrid
- Location
- Hybrid, San Francisco
- Posted
- 5d ago
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at Apollo
<div class="content-intro"><p><a class="notion-link-token notion-focusable-token notion-enable-hover" href="http://apollo.io/" data-token-index="0"><span class="link-annotation-7a57a4e3-9668-4c92-9fb1-a9318bf3a91b--723603012">Apollo.io</span></a> is the leading go-to-market solution for revenue teams, trusted by over 500,000 companies and millions of users globally, from rapidly growing startups to some of the world's largest enterprises. Founded in 2015, the company is one of the fastest growing companies in SaaS, raising approximately $250 million to date and valued at $1.6 billion. <a class="notion-link-token notion-focusable-token notion-enable-hover" href="http://apollo.io/" data-token-index="2"><span class="link-annotation-7a57a4e3-9668-4c92-9fb1-a9318bf3a91b--723603012">Apollo.io</span></a> provides sales and marketing teams with easy access to verified contact data for over 210 million B2B contacts and 35 million companies worldwide, along with tools to engage and convert these contacts in one unified platform. By helping revenue professionals find the most accurate contact information and automating the outreach process, <a class="notion-link-token notion-focusable-token notion-enable-hover" href="http://apollo.io/" data-token-index="4"><span class="link-annotation-7a57a4e3-9668-4c92-9fb1-a9318bf3a91b--723603012">Apollo.io</span></a> turns prospects into customers. Apollo raised a series D in 2023 and is backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and more, and counts the former President and COO of Hubspot, JD Sherman, among its board members.</p></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>About Apollo</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Apollo is the AI-powered go-to-market platform that helps revenue teams find, engage, and convert their best customers. We combine a database of more than 210 million contacts and 35 million companies with an agentic end-to-end GTM platform, and more than 500,000 companies rely on us to run their go-to-market motion. We are profitable, growing fast, and rebuilding the product around AI and agents.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Your role and mission</strong></span></p> <pre><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">You will set technical direction at the level of the whole engineering organization. You will own the hardest, most ambiguous, and highest-stakes technical bets, the ones that shape the product for years, and you will be a force multiplier across many teams. Your judgment will be a reference point for how we build, and your impact will be felt org-wide rather than on any single team.</span></pre> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>What you will do</strong></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Own the technical direction of Apollo's most critical and most ambiguous problems, across team and organizational boundaries</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Make the architectural bets that shape the product and platform over multiple years, and be accountable for how they play out</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Set the technical strategy for the rebuild around AI and agents, and turn it into direction teams can execute</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Raise the engineering bar across the whole organization through the standards, patterns, and decisions you drive</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Multiply the output of engineers and teams far beyond your own code, through design, review, and mentorship of our most senior engineers</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Partner with engineering and product leadership as a peer on where the technology needs to go. </span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>How we work: AI-native by default</strong></span></p> <pre><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">You set the standard for what AI-native engineering looks like at the highest level. You use agents to move faster on the hardest design, investigation, and implementation work, you define the practices other engineers adopt, and you find the step-change bets where AI reshapes how we build the product, not just how fast we ship.</span></pre> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>What we are looking for</strong></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">A track record of setting technical direction that shaped a product or platform across an entire engineering organization</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Depth across distributed systems and architecture, and command of the reliability, scale, and cost tradeoffs behind company-defining decisions</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The judgment to make the hardest calls under ambiguity, and the influence to align many teams behind them</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">A record of multiplying the most senior engineers around you. Genuine, current fluency with AI-assisted development, and a clear point of view on where AI takes engineering next</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Our tech stack</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">React on the front end; Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Python, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch on the backend; Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform in infrastructure; GCP for cloud.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>What you will love about Apollo</strong></span></p> <pre><spa