Staff Platform Engineer
Join Calendly as a Staff Platform Engineer to enhance cloud infrastructure and empower product developers with a self-service platform.
Posted by employer 3 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 month ago
Last verified on the company career page 19 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
Role intensity
50% coding
Requirements
- Experience
- 10+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Staff Platform Engineer at Calendly plays a crucial role in enhancing the company's infrastructure by designing and building tools that support product developers in operating services independently. This position requires extensive experience in cloud infrastructure, particularly with Go and Kubernetes, as well as a strong ability to mentor and collaborate with internal teams. Ideal candidates will have over a decade of experience in software development or cloud infrastructure, making this role suitable for seasoned professionals looking to make a significant impact in a growing company.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about a month ago — first seen on Joblaze September 3, 2026. Last confirmed on Calendly's careers page October 27, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for DevOps/SRE roles (median ~$165,000).
- Starts above 89% of 35 comparable staff devops/sre roles in United States that list Kubernetes we track (median $210,000 across 22 companies). See Kubernetes salary trends
- Kubernetes appears in 64.8% of 71 comparable staff devops/sre roles in United States; Linux appears in 11.3% of 71 comparable staff devops/sre roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Staff Platform Engineer role remote?
- It's hybrid — Calendly expects some on-site time in Remote - US.
- What's the salary range?
- Calendly lists $238,968–$347,488 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 10 years of relevant experience for this Staff Platform Engineer role.
- Where is the role based?
- Calendly is hiring for this position in Remote - US.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Datadog, GCP, Go, Kubernetes, Linux.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Calendly targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Platform Engineer role at Calendly.
From the original posting
What’s in it for you?
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, 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
What do we need from you?
- 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
The ranges listed above are the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change.
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