Staff Platform Engineer

About the role

Join Calendly to enhance our infrastructure platform, enabling product teams to operate services independently. This role is crucial for driving operational maturity and innovation within our engineering organization.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Develop and implement tools and applications to expand the capabilities of Calendly's infrastructure.
• Assess and guide the adoption of new applications across the company.
• Apply expertise in cloud infrastructure principles and design patterns.
• Promote and share best practices for developing cloud-native applications.
• Cultivate a learning and knowledge-sharing environment within the team.

Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in cloud infrastructure or software development.
• Over 4 years of experience leading technical initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to mentor and share knowledge with others.
• Experience collaborating with internal customers to understand their needs and develop solutions.
• Proven ability to solve complex problems creatively and deliver high-quality results.
• Strong proficiency in Go (Golang), particularly for building and managing cloud infrastructure APIs.
• Expert understanding of cloud-native application design on Kubernetes, including patterns like Controllers and Operators.
• Extensive experience designing, building, and operating highly available production systems.
• Familiarity with Linux operating systems and fundamental systems engineering concepts.
• Technical knowledge of cloud infrastructure (especially GCP), distributed systems, and reliability engineering.
• Working knowledge of system and infrastructure tuning and observability tools, with a focus on Datadog.
• Must be authorized to work legally in the United States.

Nice to have

• Experience building applications on Temporal.

Skills & tools

• Go (Golang)
• Kubernetes API
• GCP
• Datadog
• Temporal

Practical notes

• Salary ranges: Tier 1: $286,762 - $347,488 USD; Tier 2: $262,865 - $318,530 USD; Tier 3: $238,968 - $289,573 USD. These ranges are subject to change and depend on factors including experience, skills, interview performance, and location.
• Total compensation includes base salary, equity awards, and benefits.
• Geographic pay tiers are based on employee location.
• Employment is not available in Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and West Virginia.
• Occasional travel may be required for company events, team collaboration, or offsites.