Staff Full Stack Engineer

About the team & opportunity 

What’s so great about working on Calendly’s Platform Services team? You will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining the foundational services and capabilities that support our engineering teams and drive the success of our products. You will leverage your deep technical expertise and leadership skills to influence platform architecture; guide engineering practices and execution; and ensure the resiliency, scalability, and performance of our platform.

Why do we need you? Well, we are looking for a Staff Engineer who will bring strong technical competency and distributed systems experience, enjoys solving complex problems with a results driven mindset, and fosters a strong sense of ownership and operational excellence. You will be using technologies like Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Go, Node, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, and more. You will report to the Head of Platform Services in this role.

A day in the life of a Staff Engineer at Calendly

On a typical day, you will be working on: 

• Architectural Design: Have a strong opinion on shaping our technical strategy and North Star Architecture as well as guiding the design and implementation of services and components within your area
• Technical Leadership: Provide mentorship, guidance, and decision making to enable engineering teams to deliver the right solutions and outcomes
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product, design, engineering, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions; you will be engaged across initiatives spanning Trust & Safety, Identity & Access Management, Scheduling, and Calendar squads, to name a few
• Planning & Execution: Act as a hands-on, key contributor on critical “Big Rock” initiatives, delivering high output with high quality; participate in planning to define scope, milestones, and work breakdown in a manner that promotes incremental delivery and high impact
• Vision & Strategy: Develop and articulate the vision for a service and its capabilities, defining its strategic value, and overseeing its evolution to meet future demands and enhance our overall platform

What do we need from you?

• Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud computing
• Experience performing a major architectural refactor; bonus if you have experience refactoring a monolithic application into microservices
• Experience building, operating, and maintaining high-traffic, high-availability platforms and systems
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze complex systems to identify …