Overview
Are you a seasoned SecOps engineer who loves digging into logs, tuning detections, and staying one step ahead of attackers? Have you ever written a Python script just to shave a few seconds off your IR workflow? Maybe threat-hunted in your home lab on a Saturday morning for fun? If so, we want to talk to you!
As a senior member of Apollo’s Security Operations team, you’ll bring deep technical expertise and a collaborative mindset to help us protect and scale our infrastructure securely. This is a high-impact opportunity to shape how SecOps evolves - from detection engineering and incident response, to compliance, automation, and AI security. You’ll work directly with teams across Apollo to reduce risk, meet customer expectations, and ensure that security operations remain a foundation of trust as we scale.
What you’ll do
Advance Apollo’s detection and response strategy in partnership with engineering and IT leadership
Implement and maintain adherence to SOC 2 and other cloud security frameworks
Handle escalations from Sales and Customer Success, including security questionnaires and customer audits
Build and tune monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to improve visibility while reducing noise
Drive automation of SecOps workflows to speed up investigation and response
Guide secure adoption of AI across Apollo - from internal use by engineers to AI-powered product features
Participate in our on-call rotation (we keep this lightweight and reasonable)
Who you are
A highly experienced SecOps engineer with a strong background in detection, response, and operational security
Skilled at building and operating modern cloud security controls across AWS, GCP, or similar environments
Comfortable working directly with engineers to embed operational security practices into their workflows
Strong communicator who can explain threats and mitigations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
Excited about the intersection of AI and security, with ideas for how to safely harness AI while managing its risks
Motivated by outcomes - not just solving incidents, but building resilient systems and reducing risk at scale
Minimum requirements
6+ years of experience in security operations, incident response, or related fields, including at least 2 years in a staff or senior-level role
Deep expertise with detection and response in cloud-native environments
Strong knowledge of SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar security frameworks
Experience building and automating security tooling (SIEM, SOAR, custom scripts)
Proven ability to lead or coordinate incident response across multiple teams
Track record of influencing operational security culture and practices without direct authority
Nice-to-Haves
Experience working with AI security - either in detection, incident response, or product security contexts
Prior experience supporting enterprise customer audits or due diligence processes
Familiarity with Terraform, Kubernetes, or other modern infrastructure stacks
Hands-on experience with threat hunting and detection engineering
About Apollo
Apollo is the worldwide leader of GraphQL innovation. Companies like Netflix, Expedia, Peloton, DoorDash, The New York Times, and PayPal are just a small sample of Apollo's customers. Our open-source product has millions of downloads every week. Gartner estimates that by 2025, 50% of companies will be using GraphQL, and we're the clear market leader.
Equal to all of that, 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.
Salary range
$164.9K – $208.6K USD