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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 Senior Data Reliability Engineer who will bring expertise as a database administrator, top notch communication skills, and eagerness to write automation and create tooling that supports our engineering organization. You will report to the Engineering Manager for DRE and will be responsible for owning and operating the database infrastructure of Calendly. You’ll provide expertise on database modeling, queries, instrumentation, operation, and optimization. You’ll partner with other teams to ensure their success with Calendly’s relational and non-relational database systems. DRE develops high-quality low-cost tools for other Calendly teams to get the most out of our database infrastructure.
A day in the life of a Senior Data Reliability Engineer at Calendly
On a typical day, you will be working on:
- Enhancing the reliability and observability of our data systems, working in multiple technologies such as Google Cloud Platform, PostgreSQL, PgBouncer, Redis, and Datadog
- Building automation and tooling, and providing expertise, to support our developers and their fleet of PostgreSQL databases and Redis instances
- Collaborating with development teams to help them reach their goals and spread best practices throughout the engineering organization
- Ensuring system uptime and playing a critical role in system recovery
What do we need from you?
- Knowledge of cloud infrastructure (especially GCP), distributed systems, observability and reliability best practices
- Deep experience administering production PostgreSQL databases and related technologies (e.g. pgbouncer)
- Exposure to Golang or Python development experience; especially orchestrating or automating database infrastructure
- Exposure to Cloud Native technology (e.g. Helm, Kubernetes workloads, ArgoCD)
- Excellent communicator with eagerness to collaborate, exchange knowledge, and apply new skills
- Experience building and maintaining tools for internal development teams
- Keen eye for identifying and implementing database optimizations
- Experience successfully leading the execution of strategic projects
- Availability for participation in an on-call rotation, ensuring timely and effective responses to critical production issues 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
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 our Top Performer Bonus program (or Sales incentive), equity awards, and competitive benefits.
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 Alabama, 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.
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This role may require occasional travel for company events, team collaboration, or offsites.
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