Calendly · 2 days ago

Principal Software Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

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Responsibilities

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

Qualification

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Required

Expertise architecting, operating, and maintaining high-traffic, high-availability platforms and systems

Experience driving technical direction, leading complex problem-solving efforts, and guiding teams through challenges

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

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

Availability for travel up to 10%

Authorized to work lawfully in the United States of America as Calendly does not engage in immigration sponsorship at this time