Quiet, written-down, on-call.
CaeliCode is remote-first across US time zones. We optimize for deep work, written communication, and an on-call rotation that doesn't ruin people. No open-plan office, no all-hands theater, no "passion" interviews.
How a CaeliCode week actually runs.
If you've worked at a healthy platform team, this will look familiar. If you haven't, this is the place to learn.
Async-first
Two recurring meetings per week, max. Everything else is a doc. RFCs, ADRs, postmortems, version-controlled, searchable, dated.
Two heads on every PR
One reviewer for correctness, one for context. We catch our own bugs. Auditors love this; so do new hires.
Quiet hours protected
No-meeting Wednesdays. Notification rules baked into onboarding. After 6pm local, only a page can find you.
Blameless, not consequenceless
Postmortems focus on systems. Action items have owners and dates. We don't paper over bad design with "team learning."
SLO-driven
Every service has an error budget. Burn it on the right things. Don't ship at midnight; do ship on Tuesday.
One-on-ones, weekly
30 minutes, written agenda the day before, written notes the day after. Career conversations once a quarter, on the calendar.
The boring list, stated clearly.
No nap pods, no chef. The things that actually keep senior engineers from burning out.
Health, US-grade
Platinum medical, dental, vision. 100% premium covered for you, 80% for dependents. HSA with $1,800/yr employer seed.
Time off, taken seriously
5 weeks PTO, 13 federal holidays, end-of-year shutdown. Minimum 3 weeks taken, enforced by your manager.
Equipment
Top-spec MacBook or Linux workstation, 4K display, mechanical keyboard of your choice, $500/yr refresh budget.
Home-office stipend
$2,500 sign-on for desk, chair, lighting, and a door that closes. $750/yr to maintain it.
Learning budget
$3,000/yr for conferences, courses, books, Kubecon, BSides. We pay for the certs we ask you to hold.
Open-source time
10% of every week is yours to spend on the public toolkit. The repos with your name on them stay yours when you leave.
If this sounds familiar, talk to us.
We hire one or two people a quarter. Senior only. The interview is engineering work, paid, on a real codebase.