Staff Full Stack Engineer, Platform Services

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. You will be responsible for building and maintaining the systems that enable our engineering teams to deliver experiences our customers love.

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 don’t wait for ideal conditions to act, you work with what you have, take smart risks, and move forward with determination.

A day in the life of a Staff Engineer at Calendly

On a typical day, you will be working on:

• Technical Leadership: Provide mentorship, guidance, and decision making to enable engineering teams to deliver the right solutions and outcomes. Champion best practices through actively collaborating with other teams in a culture that values whiteboarding and technical design review. You will hold yourself and others accountable and share feedback openly.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product, design, engineering, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions. You will regularly work hand-in-hand with product-facing engineers to ship impactful code. You are committed to breaking down silos.
• 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 focus on high impact.
• Vision Strategy: Develop and articulate the vision for platform services and its capabilities, defining its strategic value, and overseeing its evolution to meet future demands and enhance our overall platform.

You will be using technologies like Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Go, Node, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, and more.

What do we need from you?

• Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.
• Hands-on experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, Ansible).
• 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 root causes and implement effective mitigations and resolutions.
• Demonstrated ability to drive innovation and propose new solutions or improvements that align with organizational goals.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong collaborative skills and the ability to work effectively within a team, including remote and distributed teams
• Proven leadership capabilities with experience mentoring and guiding engineering teams.
• Ability to adapt to new technologies, changing requirements, and evolving organizational needs.
• 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

What’s in it for you?

Ready to make a serious impact? Millions of people already rely on Calendly’s products, and we’re still in the midst of our growth curve — it’s a fantastic time to join us. Everything you’ll work on here will accelerate your career to the next level. If you want to learn, grow, and do the best work of your life alongside the best people you’ve ever worked with, then we hope you’ll consider allowing Calendly to be a part of your professional journey.

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the application or recruiting process, please contact us at work@tuhustle.com .

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The ranges listed below are the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change.

Calendly takes a number of factors into consideration when determining an employee’s starting salary, including relevant experience, relevant skills sets, interview performance, location/metropolitan area, and internal pay equity.

Base salary is just one component of Calendly’s total rewards package. All full-time (30 hours/week) employees are also eligible for our Quarterly Corporate Bonus program (or Sales incentive), equity awards, and competitive benefits.

Calendly uses the zip code of an employee’s remote work location, or the onsite building location if hybrid, to determine which metropolitan pay range we use. Current geographic zones are as follows:

• 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