Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Calendly is a company that enables millions of people to manage their schedules more effectively, and they are seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to enhance their infrastructure. The role involves designing tools for the infrastructure platform, guiding application development, and ensuring operational maturity in cloud infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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
- 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
- Experience building applications on Temporal a plus
Benefits
- Top Performer Bonus program (or Sales incentive)
- Equity awards
- Competitive benefits
- Reasonable accommodation as part of the application or recruiting process if you are an individual with a disability
- Occasional travel for company events, team collaboration, or offsites
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