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 Senior Platform Engineer who will bring hands-on subject-matter expertise with Go and the Kubernetes API. You will report to the Senior Manager, Infrastructure and will be responsible for building components of a self-service platform that allows product developers to independently operate Calendly’s services.

A day in the life of a Senior 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 for your team
  • Exercising expertise in cloud infrastructure concepts and patterns
  • Fostering a collaborative environment of learning and knowledge dissemination

What do we need from you?

  • 8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and/or software development
  • 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 application on Temporal a plus
  • 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

What’s in it for you? 

Ready to make a serious impact? Millions of people already rely on Calendly’s products, and we’re still in the midst of our growth curve — it’s a fantastic time to join us. Everything you’ll work on here will accelerate your career to the next level. If you want to learn, grow, and do the best work of your life alongside the best people you’ve ever worked with, then we hope you’ll consider allowing Calendly to be a part of your professional journey. 

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the application or recruiting process, please contact us at recruiting@calendly.com . 

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The ranges listed below are the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change.
Calendly takes a number of factors into consideration when determining an employee’s starting salary, including relevant experience, relevant skills sets, interview performance, location/metropolitan area, and internal pay equity.
Base salary is just one component of Calendly’s total rewards package. All full-time (30 hours/week) employees are also eligible for our Quarterly Corporate Bonus program (or Sales incentive), equity awards, and competitive benefits.
Calendly uses the zip code of an employee’s remote work location, or the onsite building location if hybrid, to determine which metropolitan pay range we use. Current geographic zones are as follows:
  • 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
Tier 1 Salary
$204,000—$276,000 USD
Tier 2 Salary
$187,000—$253,000 USD
Tier 3 Salary
$170,000—$230,000 USD

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