Staff Platform Engineer

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.
• Delivering on Infrastructure roadmap objectives to provide a self-service platform for product developers.
• Participating in on-call rotation for business-critical alerts.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and/or software development.
• 4+ years of experience leading technical projects.
• 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.
• 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).
• Eagerness and drive to teach, share knowledge, and mentor others.
• Comfortable working directly with internal customers to understand needs and collaborate on solutions.
• Creative problem-solving, keen eye for detail, and ability to deliver high quality solutions to complex issues.
• Availability for on-call rotation.
• Authorized to work lawfully in the United States.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience building applications on Temporal.