Ready to make a serious impact? Millions of people already rely on Calendly, and we’re still in the midst of exciting product growth — it’s a fantastic time to join us. Everything you’ll work on here will accelerate your career to the next level. If you want to learn, grow, and do the best work of your life alongside the best people you’ve ever worked with, then we hope you’ll consider allowing Calendly to be a part of your professional journey.
What’s so great about working on Calendly’s Engineering team?
We make things possible for our customers through impactful innovation.
Why do we need you? We're seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for our Data Platform with deep expertise in people leadership, technical delivery, and organizational development. This role sits at the core of our Data, AI, and Infrastructure organization. Reporting directly to the VP of Data, you'll own the development and expansion of the infrastructure and data platforms that enable all Calendly teams to leverage and rely on trusted data. Your work will enable a best-in-class scheduling experience and help millions of users host better meetings.
A day in the life of an Engineering Manager at CalendlyAs a Senior Manager, Data Platform, you will have the opportunity to lead the strategy, execution, and evolution of Calendly’s modern data platform. This leader will oversee the systems, architecture, and engineering practices that enable reliable, scalable, secure, and self-service access to data across the company.
This is a highly cross-functional leadership role that partners closely with various product Engineering teams, Product management, product Analytics, Security, Infrastructure and AI/ML teams.
This position spans Data Engineering and Analytics Engineering functions - maintaining technical excellence and uniformity across our services. Your team will manage our Enterprise Data Warehouse - collecting, processing, and overseeing data that drives analytics, operations, and strategic decisions throughout the organization. In addition to the internal warehouse, you'll also oversee Calendly's near-real-time data systems that serve millions of users each day. This requires close collaboration with product engineering teams and internal analytics groups to grasp their requirements, explore their specific scenarios, and genuinely comprehend what drives their success.
Ideal candidates provide direction amid uncertainty and can independently investigate and identify solutions. If selected for this position, you'll own the mentoring, development, and strategic planning for your team's growth. At Calendly, you'll have the chance to significantly influence the quality and evolution of a product used by millions.
On a typical day, you will be working on:- Define and execute the long-term strategy for Calendly’s data platform and ecosystem.
- Build a scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient platform that supports analytics, experimentation, operational reporting, machine learning, and AI use cases.
- Drive modernization initiatives across data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, governance, observability, and serving layers.
- Build internal platform capabilities that empower analysts, data scientists, ML engineers, and product teams.
- Improve data discoverability, governance, lineage, and quality.
- Drive adoption of self-service tooling and standardized workflows.
- Recruit engineers and people leaders to expand both new and existing teams across the organization, with responsibility for all hires joining the squad
- Address challenges that accelerate progress for the entire engineering organization
- Guide, develop, and integrate new engineering team members
- Drive the professional growth, engagement, and performance of engineers on your team
- Guarantee the systems under your team's ownership are performing effectively, meeting service level commitments, and prepared to scale
- Anticipate upcoming technical requirements and develop strategies to address them
- Deliver feedback and direction to support our continuous growth and expansion
- 7+ years experience leading a data and analytics engineering teams
- 10+ years of overall development - especially relating to Data Platforms and Products (SQL, Python, Java, Scala, or strongly typed languages preferred)
- Strong understanding of Data warehousing, Batch and streaming data pipelines, Data orchestration and workflow management, Data modeling and transformation frameworks, Metadata, lineage, and governance systems, Data observability and reliability practices
- Ability to balance technical excellence with business outcomes. Strong systems thinking and prioritization skills.
- Deep proficiency with data application development and building scalable architecture for enterprise grade data warehouses and streaming engines
- Ability to be a hands on contributor when need be with a focus on enablement
- Experience planning and leading development efforts on large projects
- Previous experience leading and mentoring teams and driving them toward big goals with consistent execution
- You are an excellent communicator who can succinctly explain deep technical concepts
- Experience leading Agile/Scrum ceremonies
- Previous experience working within a balanced engineering and product team
- 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 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.
Skills Required
- 7+ years experience leading data and analytics engineering teams
- 10+ years overall development experience related to Data Platforms and Products
- Strong understanding of Data warehousing, Batch and streaming data pipelines
- Experience leading Agile/Scrum ceremonies
- Authorized to work lawfully in the United States
What We Do
At Calendly, we are excited about changing the way the world schedules. We are a profitable company, offering ample opportunities to accelerate your career. We’re obsessed with providing an elegant, delightful experience for our customers. This shapes how we develop, design, market and support. We work hard, move fast and pitch in across departments—and always make time to celebrate our accomplishments. Join a diverse workforce, leading the way in scheduling automation. Calendly, a powerful yet simple automated scheduling tool, takes the work out of connecting with others so you can accomplish more. Millions of users benefit from an enjoyable scheduling experience, more time to spend on top priorities and flexibility to accommodate individual users and large teams alike. Calendly works with Google, Office 365 and Outlook calendars and apps like Salesforce, Stripe, PayPal, Google Analytics, GoToMeeting and Zapier for a seamless user experience.
