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Staff Platform Engineer
Calendly · 🇺🇸 Remote - US · Remote
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 1 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jan 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Calendly paid sponsored hires in similar roles1 certified filing for “Staff Data Engineer” (Software Developers) in WA: $240k–$240k, median $240k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 1 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jan 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
What’s in it for you? 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. 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 Staff Platform Engineer who will bring operational maturity, deep, hands-on subject-matter expertise with Go and the Kubernetes API, and a strong drive to make an impact. You will report to the Head of Infrastructure and will be responsible for successful delivery of Infrastructure roadmap objectives, with the goal of providing a self-service platform that allows product developers to independently operate Calendly’s services. A day in the life of a Staff Platform Engineer at Calendly On a typical day, you will be working on: • Designing and building tools and applications to extend Calendly’s infrastructure platform • Evaluating and guiding the development of applications across the organization • Exercising deep expertise in cloud infrastructure concepts and patterns • Offering and evangelizing patterns for application teams to consume for cloud native applications development • Fostering a collaborative environment of learning and knowledge dissemination What do we need from you? • 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and/or software development • 4+ years of experience leading technical projects • An eagerness and drive to teach, share your knowledge, and mentor others • Comfortable, and practiced, working directly with internal customers to understand needs/requirements and collaborate on solutions • Creative problem-solving, a keen eye for detail, and ability to deliver high quality solutions to complex issues • Strong Go (Golang) development experience; especially writing APIs to build, orchestrate and manage cloud infrastructure • Expert knowledge of patterns and principles for designing and implementing cloud native applications on Kubernetes, such as Controllers and Operators • Experience building applications on Temporal a plus • Deep experience designing, building, and running highly-available production applications • An understanding of the Linux operating system, and systems engineering fundamentals • Technical knowledge of cloud infrastructure (especially GCP), distributed systems, and reliability practices • Working knowledge of software and infrastructure tuning and observability (especially Datadog) • Availability for participation in on-call rotation, ensuring prompt and effective responses to business-critical alerts 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 Tier 1 Salary Hiring Range $286,762 — $347,488 USD Tier 2 Salary Hiring Range $262,865 — $318,530 USD Tier 3 Salary Hiring Range $238,968 — $289,573 USD 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 equity awards, and competitive