Staff Platform Engineer
About the team & opportunity
What’s so great about working on Calendly’s Engineering team?
We make things possible for our customers through innovation.
Why do we need you? Well, we are looking for a Staff Platform Engineer who will bring operational maturity, deep, hands-on subject-matter expertise with Go and the Kubernetes API, and a strong drive to make an impact. You will report to the Head of Infrastructure and will be responsible for successful delivery of Infrastructure roadmap objectives, with the goal of providing a self-service platform that allows product developers to independently operate Calendly’s services.
A day in the life of a Staff Platform Engineer at Calendly
On a typical day, you will be working on:
Designing and building tools and applications to extend Calendly’s infrastructure platform
Evaluating and guiding the development of applications across the organization
Exercising deep expertise in cloud infrastructure concepts and patterns
Offering and evangelizing patterns for application teams to consume for cloud native applications development
Fostering a collaborative environment of learning and knowledge dissemination
What do we need from you?
10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and/or software development
4+ years of experience leading technical projects
An eagerness and drive to teach, share your knowledge, and mentor others
Comfortable, and practiced, working directly with internal customers to understand needs/requirements and collaborate on solutions
Creative problem-solving, a keen eye for detail, and ability to deliver high quality solutions to complex issues
Strong Go (Golang) development experience; especially writing APIs to build, orchestrate and manage cloud infrastructure
Expert knowledge of patterns and principles for designing and implementing cloud native applications on Kubernetes, such as Controllers and Operators
Experience building applications on Temporal a plus
Deep experience designing, building, and running highly-available production applications
An understanding of the Linux operating system, and systems engineering fundamentals
Technical knowledge of cloud infrastructure (especially GCP), distributed systems, and reliability practices
Working knowledge of software and infrastructure tuning and observability (especially Datadog)
Availability for participation in on-call rotation, ensuring prompt and effective responses to business-critical alerts outside of regular working hours.
Authorized to work lawfully in the United States of America as Calendly does not engage in immigration sponsorship at this time
Tier 1 Salary Hiring Range
$286,762—$347,488 USD
Tier 2 Salary Hiring Range
$262,865—$318,530 USD
Tier 3 Salary Hiring Range
$238,968—$289,573 USD