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# Staff Platform Engineer at Calendly

- **Company:** Calendly
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $239k–$347k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/calendly/jobs/8628979002

## Job description

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, 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

Tier 1 Salary Hiring Range $286,762—$347,488 USD

Tier 2 Salary Hiring Range $262,865—$318,530 USD

Tier 3 Salary Hiring Range $238,968—$289,573 USD

The ranges listed above 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 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.

All candidates can find our Candidate Privacy Statement[here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UarTnO5b7rIEKowqiyRvw1Zz81mROP7tq-NR7sCmhBM/edit)

Candidates residing in California may visit our Notice at Collection for California Candidates here:[Notice at Collection](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d58_uJ1S0ti5jMlekLhXRswLfJAdw0A6/edit#bookmark=id.gjdgxs)

This role may require occasional travel for company events, team collaboration, or offsites.

## About Calendly

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Calendly provides a scheduling automation platform that eliminates the back-and-forth of booking meetings for individuals and businesses.
- **Entity Type**: Private (valued at $3B as of 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Tope Awotona

## Core Business
Calendly operates in the scheduling automation industry, serving both B2B and B2C customers ranging from individual professionals to small businesses and Fortune 100 enterprises. The company’s mission is to “improve the quality of every relationship building interaction” [calendly.com](https://calendly.com/about).

## Products & Services
- **Calendly Scheduling Platform**: A SaaS solution that connects up to six calendars, shares a personalized scheduling link, and automates meeting booking with real-time availability. It offers customizable event types, video conferencing integration, and supports 100+ partner integrations with Google, Microsoft, Zoom, and more [calendly.com](https://calendly.com/). The platform is used by over 20 million individuals and 100,000 organizations across 230+ countries [calendly.com](https://calendly.com/about).

- **Enterprise-Grade Features**: Includes admin management, security integrations, data governance, compliance audits, and privacy protections to meet the needs of large organizations [calendly.com](https://calendly.com/).

- **Team & Enterprise Plans**: Subscription tiers for growing teams and large companies, starting at $10–$16 per seat per month, with a free plan available for personal use [calendly.com](https://calendly.com/).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $3 billion (2025 estimate based on Forbes Cloud 100 listing) [forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/companies/calendly/).
- **Key Metric**: 20+ million monthly active users and 100,000+ companies, including 86% of the Fortune 500 [calendly.com](https://calendly.com/).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly listed in the provided sources, but the company raised a $350M Series B in 2021 (common knowledge; not cited here per instructions). Partnerships include Google, Microsoft, Zoom, and others.
- **Growth Signals**: Ranked #1 in G2’s 2024 Fall Report for Online Appointment Scheduling [calendly.com](https://calendly.com/about); appeared on Forbes Cloud 100 (2025, #59) and America’s Best Startup Employers (2023) [forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/companies/calendly/); headcount of ~500 employees [forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/companies/calendly/). Recent job postings indicate expansion in engineering, product, and marketing roles [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/calendly/jobs/8506905002).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Massive User Base & Network Effects**: Over 20 million users create a strong adoption moat; integrations with 100+ tools make switching costly.
- **Enterprise Trust**: Trusted by 86% of Fortune 500 companies and certified for enterprise security and compliance.
- **Brand Recognition**: Consistently ranked top in scheduling software by G2, and featured on Forbes Cloud 100.
- **Simplicity and Scale**: Easy enough for individuals yet powerful and secure enough for global enterprises.

## Strategic Focus
- **Growth & Monetization**: Active hiring for roles like “Engineering Manager, Growth and Monetization” and “Senior Full Stack Engineer, Monetization” [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/calendly/jobs/8506905002).
- **New Products**: Staff Product Manager for “New Products” role suggests expansion into adjacent offerings [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/calendly/jobs/8506905002).
- **Data & AI**: Machine Learning Engineer and Senior Machine Learning Engineer positions point to investment in AI-driven scheduling features [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/calendly/jobs/8506905002).
- **Enterprise Depth**: Senior Engineering Manager for Data Platform and Senior Site Reliability Engineer roles indicate scaling infrastructure for large customers [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/calendly/jobs/8506905002).

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-First Culture**: Home office and tech stipends, generous PTO, and annual holiday closure [calendly.com](https://calendly.com/careers).
- **Competitive Compensation**: “Competitive Pay & Equity,” 401(k) with immediate vesting, and performance-based rewards [calendly.com](https://calendly.com/careers).
- **Strong Benefits**: Health, dental, vision insurance, FSAs/HSAs, paid parental leave for all parents, life and disability insurance [calendly.com](https://calendly.com/careers).
- **Values-Driven**: Core values include “Focus on impact,” “Find a way,” “Customer experience obsessed,” and “One team” [calendly.com](https://calendly.com/careers).
- **Giving Back**: Calendly Cares volunteer and charitable giving program [calendly.com](https://calendly.com/careers).
- **Connection**: Annual company kick-off and local meetups [calendly.com](https://calendly.com/careers).

## Sources
1. [calendly.com – About Us](https://calendly.com/about)
2. [calendly.com – Careers](https://calendly.com/careers)
3. [calendly.com – Homepage](https://calendly.com/)
4. [forbes.com – Calendly Company Overview](https://www.forbes.com/companies/calendly/)
5. [greenhouse.io – Calendly Jobs](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/calendly/jobs/8506905002)

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