The scheduling automation platform for eliminating the back-and-forth emails to find the perfect time — and so much more
Staff Platform Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
5 hours ago
Salary
$239.0K - $347.5K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Platform Engineer
Calendly
• 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
Job Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- Base salary is just one component of Calendly’s total rewards package.
- All full-time (30 hours/week) employees are also eligible for our Top Performer Bonus program (or Sales incentive), equity awards, and competitive benefits.
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