Staff Platform Engineer

Role Description

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 includes:

• 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

Qualifications

• 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

Requirements

• 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
• Base salary is just one component of Calendly’s total rewards package, including eligibility for Top Performer Bonus program, equity awards, and competitive benefits
• Current geographic zones for salary determination:
• Tier 1: San Francisco, CA, San Jose, CA, New York City, NY
• Tier 2: Chicago, IL, Austin, TX, Denver, CO, Boston, MA, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, PA, Portland, OR, Seattle, WA, Miami, FL, and all other cities in CA
• Tier 3: All other locations not in Tier 1 or Tier 2

Benefits

• Top Performer Bonus program (or Sales incentive)
• Equity awards
• Competitive benefits