Senior Backend Engineer, Cloud Platform
Core
Design, build, and operate scalable AWS infrastructure and compute foundations (Amazon EKS) to power ClickUp's converged AI workspace for millions of users.
Role type
Senior IC cloud platform engineer (infrastructure)
Builds
Scalable AWS infrastructure, reusable platform abstractions, and compute foundations
Domain
Cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, AWS
Deliverable
infrastructure
Required skills
Kubernetes (Amazon EKS), AWS (EKS, EC2, Lambda, VPC, IAM, S3), Terraform, Go/Python/TypeScript, distributed systems, multi-account AWS architecture, data stores (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis)
Preferred skills
AWS Bedrock, AWS CDK, hybrid monolith/microservices architectures
Technologies
AWS, Amazon EKS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Go, Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Redis
Responsibilities
Build and scale AWS infrastructure and reusable platform abstractions; Automate shard buildouts and implement Terraform guardrails; Scale systems for multi-shard, multi-region growth; Partner with SRE, Security, and product teams; Own reliability of Cloud Platform (on-call, incident response, postmortems); Use AI tooling daily to accelerate development and operations.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC