Senior Engineering Manager, Data Platform

About the team & opportunity

We make 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. 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 Calendly

As 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.