Staff Platform Engineer

About the role

What’s in it for you?

Ready to make a serious impact? Millions of people already rely on Calendly, and we’re still in the midst of exciting product growth — 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.

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 Staff Platform Engineer who will bring operational maturity, strong software engineering expertise, deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes and its APIs, and a strong drive to make an impact. You will report to the Head of Infrastructure and will be responsible for successful delivery of Infrastructure roadmap objectives, with the goal of providing a self-service platform that allows product developers to independently operate Calendly’s services.

This is a hands-on software engineering role focused on building platform capabilities on top of Kubernetes, rather than primarily administering infrastructure or managing deployments.

A day in the life of a Staff Platform Engineer at Calendly

On a typical day, you will be working on:

- Designing and building software, APIs, and automation that extend Calendly's internal developer platform and enable self-service infrastructure capabilities

- Leading technical design and architectural decisions for Kubernetes-based platform capabilities that improve developer productivity and operational efficiency

- 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

What do we need from you?

- 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and/or software development

- Strong software engineering experience building production systems and APIs, ideally using Go (Golang). Experience in another modern programming language is welcome, with the ability and interest to develop in Go

- Deep, hands-on Kubernetes expertise, including designing, building, and operating production systems that leverage Kubernetes APIs. Experience developing Kubernetes controllers, operators, or other Kubernetes-native platform capabilities is highly valued

- Demonstrated experience leading complex technical initiatives, influencing architectural decisions, and driving adoption of engineering solutions across multiple teams

- 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