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Staff Platform Engineer

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  • 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
  • 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
  • Experience building applications on Temporal 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
  • 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
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