Principal Software Engineer (Hybrid, San Francisco)
Apollo.io · Hybrid, San Francisco
Posted about 3 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 77 days Apollo.io's roles stay open a median of 81 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Apollo.io's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Apollo.io
- high 38 stale, 0 reposted of 40 open
- Hiring momentum
- 61 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-23
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Apollo.io's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Apollo.io.
About this role
As a Staff Software Engineer at Apollo.io, you will set the technical direction for the engineering organization, tackling the most challenging and ambiguous problems that impact the product long-term. Your role involves making architectural decisions, mentoring senior engineers, and collaborating with leadership to shape the company's technology strategy, particularly around AI and automation.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Apollo.io as an employer.
What you need
- A track record of setting technical direction that shaped a product or platform across an entire engineering organization
- Depth across distributed systems and architecture, and command of the reliability, scale, and cost tradeoffs behind company-defining decisions
- The judgment to make the hardest calls under ambiguity, and the influence to align many teams behind them
- 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
What you get
- equity
- company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
- 401(k) plan
- at least 10 paid holidays per year
- flex PTO
- parental leave
Worth weighing
- no salary listed for non-US applicants
- stack includes legacy technologies like Ruby on Rails
- role involves high ambiguity and significant responsibility
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Listed by Apollo.io on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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