Senior Backend Engineer, Cloud Platform

<p style="min-height:1.5em">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. 🚀</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>The role</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </div><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>What you'll do</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build and scale AWS infrastructure and reusable platform abstractions that simplify development, with a strong focus on Amazon EKS, networking, and self-hosted services.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Identify improvement opportunities and emerging risks, and propose novel solutions that improve reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency before constraints become blockers.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Automate shard buildouts and implement Terraform guardrails and hardened ingress that reduce incidents.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Scale systems for multi-shard, multi-region growth while meeting compliance attestations (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc), disaster recovery, and enterprise security requirements.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Partner with SRE, Security, product, AI, and enterprise teams to bridge infrastructure and product engineering.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own the reliability of Cloud Platform itself: on-call, incident response, postmortems, runbooks, and prevention.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Use AI tooling daily to accelerate development, testing, IaC, operations, and investigations, and help the team raise its AI leverage.</p></li></ul><div style="min-height:1.2em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"> </div><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>What we're looking for</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">6+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems with a focus on infrastructure and cloud, especially compute foundations.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Deep, hands-on experience operating and troubleshooting Kubernetes in production, including control-plane, node, and networking issues, ideally Amazon EKS at fleet scale.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Strong AWS experience: EKS, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, VPC networking, IAM, S3, KMS. Bedrock is a plus.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Multi-account AWS (20+ accounts) experience, including Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, VPC routing, DNS, and load balancing.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Infrastructure-as-code at scale with Terraform (CDK experience is a plus).