Platform Engineer

What’s in it for you? 

Ready to make a serious impact? Millions of people already rely on Calendly, and we’re still in the midst of exciting product growth — 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.

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