Staff Platform Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE We're seeking a highly skilled Staff Platform Engineer to accelerate our product growth and deliver a self-service platform that enables product developers to independently operate Calendly's services. As a Staff Platform Engineer, you'll bring operational maturity, deep expertise in Go and the Kubernetes API, and a strong drive to make an impact. WHAT YOU'LL DO On a typical day, you'll 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, and fostering a collaborative environment of learning and knowledge dissemination. WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be successful in this role, you'll need: - 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 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 is 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 WHY REMOTE As a remote employee, you'll have the flexibility to work from anywhere and enjoy a better work-life balance. Our team is distributed across the United States, and we're looking for someone who is comfortable working independently and collaboratively with our team. BENEFITS Calendly offers a competitive total rewards package, including a base salary, Top Performer Bonus program, equity awards, and competitive benefits. Our salary ranges are based on the zip code of an employee's remote work location, or the onsite building location if hybrid, and 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 Note that all individual roles will specify location eligibility.