Senior Data Reliability Engineer

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 databases, especially PostgreSQL
• Hands-on experience in Helm, Kubernetes workloads, and custom K8s operators to build and support self-service database infrastructure and tooling
  ●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
  ● Authorized to work lawfully in the United States of America as Calendly does not engage in immigration sponsorship at this time 

What’s in it for you? 

Ready to make a serious impact? Millions of people already rely on Calendly’s products, and we’re still in the midst of our growth curve — 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.

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