Senior Engineering Manager

About the team & opportunity 

What’s so great about working in Calendly’s Platform organization? You will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining the Identity & Access Management related services and capabilities that support our engineering teams and drive the success of our products. You will leverage your deep technical expertise and leadership skills to influence platform architecture; guide engineering practices and execution; and ensure the resiliency, scalability, and performance of our platform.

Why do we need you? Well, we are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager who has a strong background in people leadership; brings strong domain experience, technical competency and distributed systems experience; enjoys solving complex problems with a results driven mindset; and fosters a strong sense of ownership and operational excellence. You will report to the Head of Platform Services in this role.

A day in the life of a Senior Engineering Manager, IAM at Calendly

As a Senior Engineering Manager at Calendly, you have the chance to mentor and grow some of the best and brightest engineers in the world. In this role, you will be overseeing the evolution of Calendly’s architecture from a monolithic codebase into high availability services. This role will also be working on building out the foundational APIs and capabilities that enable our entire engineering team to innovate quickly. This means working closely with product focused engineering teams to understand their needs, and also deep diving into our data services to discover new capabilities and insights that provide value to our users.

Top candidates bring clarity where there is ambiguity and can work autonomously to research and uncover solutions. If chosen for this role, you’ll be responsible for mentoring, coaching, and planning for the future of your team. At Calendly, you’ll have the opportunity to make a huge impact on the quality and development of a product impacting millions.

On a typical day, you will be working on:

• People Leadership: Attract, retain, and develop talent on the team through hiring, coaching, and providing opportunities to stretch and test individuals
• Technical Leadership: Be in the details and provide mentorship, guidance, and decision making to enable engineering teams to deliver the right solutions and outcomes
• Planning & Execution: Own and drive execution on critical “Big Rock” initiatives, delivering key outcomes on time with high quality; participate in planning to define scope, milestones, and work breakdown in a manner that promotes incremental delivery and high impact
• Vision & Strategy: Develop and articulate the vision for our Identity & Access Management capabilities and oversee its evolution to meet future demands and enhance our overall platform
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product, design, engineering, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Architectural Design: Have a strong opinion on shaping our technical strategy and North Star Architecture as well as guiding the design and implementation of services and components within your area

What do we need from you?

• 5+ years experience as a people leader within a platform engineering organization
• Domain expertise with customer-facing Identity & Access Management (IAM) –  specifically authentication, authorization, and security
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud computing
• Experience building, operating, and maintaining high-traffic, high-availability platforms and systems
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze complex systems to identify root causes and implement effective mitigations and resolutions
• Demonstrated ability to drive innovation and propose new solutions or improvements that align with organizational goals
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Strong collaborative skills and the ability to work effectively within a team, including remote and distributed teams
• Proven leadership capabilities with experience mentoring and guiding engineering teams
• Ability to adapt to new technologies, changing requirements, and evolving organizational needs
• 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

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 phenomenal 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 career.

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 contact us at recruiting@calendly.com . 

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The ranges listed below are the expected annual base salary for this role, subject to change.

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Base salary is just one component of Calendly’s total rewards package. All full-time (30 hours/week) employees are also eligible for our Quarterly Corporate Bonus program (or Sales incentive), equity awards, and competitive benefits.

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