Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Calendly

9h•$198,025 - $287,952•Remote

About The Position

Calendly is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join their growing Engineering team. This role will report to a Senior Manager of Engineering and be responsible for designing, building, maintaining, and operating the company's next-generation infrastructure platform. The SRE will contribute to a scalable environment by building their own tools, deploying open-source solutions, and utilizing cloud services. The position offers an opportunity to empower application engineering teams by evangelizing monitoring best practices, advising on optimal infrastructure use, and demonstrating exceptional skills in communicating patterns and improvements that automate tasks, support stability, and enhance performance.

Requirements

An eagerness and drive to learn, and the skills for sharing your knowledge with and mentor others
Creative problem-solving, a keen eye for detail, and can think your way through complex issues
Comfortable working directly with internal facing customers to understand needs/requirements and collaborate on solutions
A strong understanding of the Linux operating system
Strong technical knowledge of cloud infrastructure (especially GCP), distributed systems, and reliability practices
Deep experience designing, building, and running highly-available production infrastructure
Strong Golang or Python development experience; especially writing APIs to build, orchestrate and manage cloud infrastructure
Solid working knowledge of patterns and principles for designing and implementing cloud native applications on Kubernetes, such as Controllers and Operators
Robust knowledge of computer networking principles and extensive experience with cloud networking technologies to create scalable and secure environments.
Extensive working experience with software and infrastructure monitoring tools (especially Datadog)
Authorized to work lawfully in the United States of America as Calendly does not engage in immigration sponsorship at this time

Responsibilities

Building tools and applications to extend Calendly’s infrastructure platform
Evaluating and deploying cloud native open source tools
Exercising expertise in cloud infrastructure concepts and patterns
Instituting resilient infrastructure through Infrastructure as code
Maintaining and improving observability of our infrastructure platform, and offers patterns for application teams to consume for application observability
Participating in an on-call rotation to support the infrastructure platform
Fostering a collaborative environment of learning and knowledge dissemination
Defining standard practices and tooling around new services, changes, incidents, postmortems, and capacity management, and work with application engineering teams to adopt those practices