Senior Engineering Manager, Data Platform

About the role

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?

• Makes things possible for our customers through impactful innovation.
• 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.
• 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 Calendly

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.

• 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.

What do we need from you?

• 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.

Tier 1 Salary Hiring Range

$268,260 - $325,068 USD

Tier 2 Salary Hiring Range

$245,905 - $297,979 USD

Tier 3 Salary Hiring Range

$223,550 - $270,890 USD