Principal Engineer, Calendly
Platform Services
$255-345k
+ Quarterly Corporate Bonus program (or Sales incentive) + equity awards
More information about location
Automated appointment scheduling
Open for applications
Automated appointment scheduling
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$255-345k
+ Quarterly Corporate Bonus program (or Sales incentive) + equity awards
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To provide broad and deep support for various meeting scenarios, and make scheduling easier and more efficient.
Role
Who you are
- Well, we are looking for a Principal Engineer who will bring strong technical competency and distributed systems experience, who enjoys solving complex problems with a results driven mindset, and fosters a strong sense of ownership and operational excellence
- 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 the job involves
- 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
- You will report to the VP of Engineering in this role, as part of the Platform Services organization
- You will be using technologies like Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Go, Node, TypeScript, Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, and more
- 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; you will be engaged across initiatives spanning Calendly’s entire engineering organization
- Planning & Execution: Acting as a hands-on, key contributor and leader on critical “Big Rock” initiatives, delivering high output with high quality; participating in planning to define capabilities, goals, scope, milestones, and work breakdown in a manner that promotes incremental delivery and high impact
- 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 and enhance our overall platform
Our take
Calendly is a cloud-based scheduling service that is straightforward to use. It allows around 10 million customers per month to connect and make appointments based on their available times without having to send emails back and forth.
The platform offers four different plans - allowing individuals, small companies, and large enterprises alike to make use of these services. Calendly's growth to date been based mostly around a very organic strategy. Its invites become links to Calendly itself, so people who like it can, and do, start to use it.
There are a handful of competing products on the market, including offerings from Doodle and Microsoft, but Calendly's customer-friendly design has won it attention and allowed it to carve itself a space in the field. Impressive funding has contributed to the company's expansion, allowing it to capitalize on the increasing popularity of home and hybrid working.
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Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
21% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2021
$350m
SERIES B
Apr 2014
$0.6m
SEED
Total funding: $350.6m
Company benefits
- Quarterly Bonus
- Equity
- Home Office Setup
- Technology
- Pick Your Own Perk
- Flexible Time Off
- Vacation Stipend
- Parental Leave
- Health and Wellbeing
- Fun Community Events
- 401k Company Match
Company values
- Start With Human - We understand that our decisions and actions impact real people. We actively pursue and thoughtfully consider the input of others. We treat everyone with genuine respect. We seek to understand first and acknowledge the work that has been done before offering new ideas.
- Find A Way We never settle, constantly looking to improve everything we do. We take on new challenges head-on, refusing to be paralyzed by complexity. We are both scrappy and creative. We take action, adapt quickly and persevere in the face of obstacles until meaningful progress is made.
- Focus Wisely - We recognize that all things do not matter equally. We are highly analytical in our approach, digging deep to discover the top priorities. A bootstrapped mentality keeps our focus on what is most important. We think “lean,” act resourcefully and refuse to compromise on quality.
- Strive For Excellence - We are self-starters who crave empowerment, actively pursue opportunities for impact, take initiative and swing big to move the needle. We embrace both personal accountability and transparency. We take ownership for results—good or bad—and learn from them.
Company HQ
Atlantic Station, Atlanta, GA
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Leadership
Tope Awotona
(CEO)Having studied at the University of Georgia, they worked as an IBM Sales Rep and for Perceptive Software, Vertafore, and EMC as an Account Manager. They left the latter in 2014, having founded Calendly in February 2013.
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