[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, App Platform

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Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Calendly is a rapidly growing company that empowers product engineering teams through shared tooling and infrastructure. As a Senior Engineer on the App Platform team, you will build foundational capabilities that enhance the product ecosystem and support engineering teams in delivering high-quality features efficiently.


Responsibilities

  • Analytics and Experimentation to enable data-driven decision making across product teams
  • Feature Flagging infrastructure to provide controlled and predictable releases at scale
  • Real-time UX Infrastructure to enable server-to-client data delivery to support dynamic and responsive experiences
  • Future Platform Services as our platform continues to grow and evolve
  • Design, develop, and maintain the services and frameworks that product teams depend on.
  • Contribute to architectural decision and technical strategy for platform services.
  • Provide guidance to engineers across the organization, share your expertise in distributed systems, and help establish patterns and practices that raise the bar for engineering excellence.
  • Own and contribute to significant projects from concept to production.
  • Whether it’s building and launching real-time server-to-client infrastructure, optimizing service performance, or designing new platform capabilities, you will deliver high impact solutions with quality and reliability at the forefront.
  • Partner with product managers, designers, and engineering teams across Calendly to understand their needs and translate them into robust platform solutions that serve the entire organization.
  • Ensure reliability and performance of platform services through thoughtful monitoring, testing, and incident response.
  • Participate in on-call rotation to support business-critical systems and drive continuous improvement based on operational learnings.

Skills

  • 7+ years of software engineering experience at a SaaS or technology company with a strong focus on backend and distributed systems
  • Deep experience in service-oriented architecture, microservice patterns, and building highly resilient / scalable systems
  • Proven experience building and operating high traffic, high availability platforms in production environments
  • Strong proficiency in building internal tools, frameworks, and SDKs that other engineers use
  • Experience with API design and real-time data systems (Server Side Events, Websockets, etc)
  • Excellent problem solving skills with the ability to diagnose complex system issues and implement effective solutions
  • Strong communication skills, you can explain complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Authorized to work lawfully in the United States of America as Calendly does not engage in immigration sponsorship at this time
  • Experience with Golang, Ruby / Rails, NodeJS / Typescript (our primary backend languages)
  • Background in platform engineering roles
  • Experience performing major architectural refactors, particularly decomposing monolithic applications into microservices
  • Familiarity with our cloud ecosystem: Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis

Benefits

  • Top Performer Bonus program
  • Equity awards
  • Competitive benefits

Company Overview

  • Calendly is a modern scheduling platform that helps individuals, teams, and organizations automate meeting by removing the back and forth. It was founded in 2013, and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://calendly.com.

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