Senior Platform Engineer - Remote

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 …