Staff Platform Engineer at Calendly
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Jul 10, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role focused on building and extending an internal platform that lets product teams self-serve cloud infrastructure. Day-to-day work involves designing Go-based tools and Kubernetes controllers/operators, setting cloud-native patterns for application teams, and maintaining highly available production systems on GCP. Suits an experienced platform or infrastructure engineer comfortable with technical leadership and mentoring.
Staff level · 10+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3,300 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,400–4,950
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The JD references tiered geographic pay ranges (Tier 1/2/3 cities) but never states the actual salary figures — no compensation numbers could be extracted.
GCP is called out explicitly in parentheses as the primary cloud platform; other cloud providers are not mentioned.
Datadog appears under the requirements section but is qualified with 'especially', indicating familiarity rather than a hard gate — treated as preferred.
Temporal (workflow orchestration) is explicitly called 'a plus' in the JD, so it is marked preferred.
Kubernetes Controllers and Operators are listed as interchangeable pattern examples for the same underlying requirement; captured as one skill with the alternative noted.
The role requires US work authorization; Calendly does not sponsor immigration. Candidates in AK, DE, HI, ID, IA, MT, NE, ND, RI, SD, and WV are explicitly ineligible.
The 10+ years figure covers 'cloud infrastructure and/or software development' (role-level); a separate 4+ years of leading technical projects is a scope signal used to confirm Staff seniority, not a per-technology years demanded.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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