Senior Backend Engineer, Cloud Platform

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7 Locations
Remote or Hybrid
Senior level
Cloud • Digital Media • Enterprise Web • Marketing Tech • Software
The everything app, for work. One app for projects, knowledge, conversations, and more. Get more done faster—together
The Role
Build and operate scalable AWS cloud infrastructure centered on Amazon EKS, networking, infrastructure-as-code, and self-hosted services. Automate shard deployments, implement Terraform guardrails and secure ingress, support multi-region growth, and meet reliability, disaster recovery, compliance, and security requirements. Partner cross-functionally, troubleshoot application and infrastructure issues, participate in on-call and incident response, and use AI tools to improve engineering workflows.
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At ClickUp, we're building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. We are an AI-native company. Every team member is expected to leverage AI daily, and we evaluate AI fluency as part of our hiring process. Join us and help redefine what's possible. 🚀

The role

ClickUp's Cloud Platform team builds scalable, secure, and cost-efficient AWS infrastructure, with a heavy focus on Amazon EKS, that stays ahead of product and enterprise growth. Our goal: product velocity is never blocked by platform constraints. As a Senior Software Engineer, you leverage AI to design, build, and operate the compute, networking, and infrastructure-as-code foundation that powers ClickUp for millions of users.

 

What you'll do

  • Build and scale AWS infrastructure and reusable platform abstractions that simplify development, with a strong focus on Amazon EKS, networking, and self-hosted services.

  • Identify improvement opportunities and emerging risks, and propose novel solutions that improve reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency before constraints become blockers.

  • Automate shard buildouts and implement Terraform guardrails and hardened ingress that reduce incidents.

  • Scale systems for multi-shard, multi-region growth while meeting compliance attestations (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc), disaster recovery, and enterprise security requirements.

  • Partner with SRE, Security, product, AI, and enterprise teams to bridge infrastructure and product engineering.

  • Own the reliability of Cloud Platform itself: on-call, incident response, postmortems, runbooks, and prevention.

  • Use AI tooling daily to accelerate development, testing, IaC, operations, and investigations, and help the team raise its AI leverage.

 

What we're looking for

  • 6+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems with a focus on infrastructure and cloud, especially compute foundations.

  • Deep, hands-on experience operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes in production, including control-plane, node, and networking issues, ideally Amazon EKS at fleet scale.

  • Strong AWS experience: EKS, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, VPC networking, IAM, S3, KMS. Bedrock is a plus.

  • Multi-account AWS (20+ accounts) experience, including Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, VPC routing, DNS, and load balancing.

  • Infrastructure-as-code at scale with Terraform (CDK experience is a plus).

  • Fluent coding in at least one language (Go, Python, or TypeScript/Node.js preferred).

  • Experience with hybrid monolith/microservices architectures.

  • Experience operating data stores at scale, such as PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, S3, and Redis/Valkey.

  • Track record of improving infrastructure reliability and efficiency and implementing security guardrails.

  • Strong production debugging across application and infrastructure boundaries, clear written communication, and effective cross-functional collaboration.

  • Daily AI user with concrete examples of how AI supercharged your engineering workflow.

Equal Opportunity Employer

ClickUp is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

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Skills Required

  • 6+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems focused on infrastructure and cloud
  • Hands-on production experience operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes, including control-plane, node, and networking issues
  • Strong AWS experience with EKS, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, VPC networking, IAM, S3, and KMS
  • Experience with multi-account AWS environments, including Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, VPC routing, DNS, and load balancing
  • Infrastructure-as-code experience at scale with Terraform
  • Fluency in at least one programming language; Go, Python, or TypeScript/Node.js preferred
  • Experience with hybrid monolith and microservices architectures
  • Experience operating large-scale data stores such as PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, S3, and Redis or Valkey
  • Track record of improving infrastructure reliability and efficiency and implementing security guardrails
  • Strong production debugging across application and infrastructure boundaries
  • Clear written communication and effective cross-functional collaboration
  • Daily AI user with concrete examples of AI-enhanced engineering workflows
  • Amazon Bedrock experience
  • AWS CDK experience

ClickUp Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ClickUp and has not been reviewed or approved by ClickUp.

  • Strong & Reliable Incentives — Feedback suggests variable compensation is attractive for high performers in customer-facing roles, with healthy on-target-earnings ranges. This indicates incentives are structured to reward above-target performance.
  • Healthcare Strength — Feedback suggests health coverage is robust, with comprehensive medical, dental, and vision options and low out-of-pocket costs reported by some. Wellness and mental health programs further bolster the offering.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — Feedback suggests generous or flexible PTO and parental leave are core parts of the package, supported by remote-friendly practices. Additional elements like volunteer time off and paid holidays broaden the time-off mix.

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The Company
HQ: San Diego, CA
1,000 Employees
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

ClickUp is the world’s only all-in-one productivity platform that flexes to the way people want to work. It replaces all individual workplace productivity tools with a single, unified platform that includes project management, document collaboration, whiteboards, spreadsheets, and AI. With our headquarters based in San Diego and a rapidly expanding global presence, we are shaping the future of work. Join our team at ClickUp, one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies worldwide, and help millions of users be more productive - saving them at least one day every week.

Why Work With Us

ClickUppers are highly passionate, energetic, and unique people that align in the mission of saving people time and making the world more productive. We're the newcomer, the underdog, but that's where we thrive. Let’s make the world more productive!

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