Staff Platform Engineer at Calendly

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Staff Platform Engineer opportunity with Calendly. Review the official posting for responsibilities, qualifications and application details.

Calendly

Location: Remote
Work arrangement: remote
Technologies: GCP, Kubernetes, Linux, Go

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Role overview

Staff Platform Engineer at Calendly, based on the employer's live posting. The role contributes to production software, engineering operations and reliable delivery within the stated team.

Responsibilities

Work with the relevant engineering and product teams to design, implement, test and operate systems for this role. Review requirements, troubleshoot issues, document decisions and improve quality through the development lifecycle.
Collaborate with stakeholders, document work and support reliable delivery.
Investigate issues and improve engineering quality through review and testing.

Qualifications

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
Expert knowledge of patterns and principles for designing and implementing cloud native applications on Kubernetes, such as Controllers and Operators
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
The ranges listed above are the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change.
Base salary is just one component of Calendly’s total rewards package. All full-time (30 hours/week) employees are also eligible for equity awards, and competitive benefits. Eligible Sales employees also qualify for a Sales Incentive program.
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
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 let your Recruiter know when first connecting with them. Calendly is registered as an employer in many, but not all, states. If you are located in Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and West Virginia, you will not be eligible for employment. Note that all individual roles will specify location eligibility.

Technology in this role

GCP: 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 .
Kubernetes: 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 .
Linux: 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 .
Go: Why do we need you? Well, we are looking for a Staff Platform Engineer who will bring operational maturity, deep, hands-on subject-matter expertise with Go and the Kubernetes API, and a strong drive to make an .
C: 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 .
Golang: • Strong Go (Golang) development .
CAN: All candidates can find our Candidate Privacy Statement .
Datadog: 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 .

Benefits

See the employer posting for the current compensation, benefits, location limits and employment conditions.

About Calendly

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, deep, hands-on subject-matter expertise with Go and the Kubernetes API, 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.

A day in the life of a Staff 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 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

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How to apply

Review the original posting and apply through the employer’s careers page.

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Source checked: 2026-10-16

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