Principal Engineer Platform Services

2 weeks ago

San Francisco, United States Calendly Full time

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.

A day in the life of a Principal Engineer at Calendly

On a typical day, you will be working on:

  • Architectural Design: Having a strong hand in shaping our technical strategy and North Star Architecture as well as guiding the design and implementation of services and components across the engineering organization.
  • Technical Leadership: Providing mentorship, guidance, decision making, and example implementations to enable engineering teams to deliver the right solutions and outcomes.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Working closely with product, design, engineering, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
  • Planning & Execution: Acting as a hands-on, key contributor and leader on critical ‘Big Rock’ initiatives, delivering high output with high quality.
  • Vision & Strategy: Developing and articulating the vision for core technical functions and their capabilities, defining their strategic value, and overseeing their evolution to meet future demands.

What do we need from you?

  • Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud computing; bonus if you have expertise in relationship graphs and/or Object Modeling.
  • Experience driving zero-to-one development of key technical capabilities.
  • Experience performing a major architectural refactor; bonus if you have experience refactoring a monolithic application into microservices.
  • Expertise 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.
  • Must be based in San Francisco Bay Area and available to come into an office as needed.
  • 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 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 recruiting@calendly.com.

Calendly is registered as an employer in many, but not all, states. If you are located in Alaska, Hawaii, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, West Virginia, and Rhode Island, you will not be eligible for employment.

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Candidates residing in California may visit our Notice at Collection for California Candidates here: Notice at Collection

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.

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