Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - AI-Driven AWS & K8s

ClickUp; Ireland; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ClickUp is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for our Cloud Platform to design, build, and operate the compute, networking, and infrastructure-as-code foundation powering ClickUp for millions of users.

You will work with AWS/EKS, Kubernetes, and multi-region deployments, ensuring reliability, security, and cost efficiency while leveraging AI to accelerate development.

Join a fast-growing AI-native company committed to scalable, enterprise-grade infrastructure and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• 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, 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.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale AWS infrastructure 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.

Skills

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Go

Python

TypeScript/Node.js

PostgreSQL

Security guardrails

Incident response

AI tooling

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS (EKS)

PostgreSQL

Job description

ClickUp is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for our Cloud Platform to design, build, and operate the compute, networking, and infrastructure-as-code foundation powering ClickUp for millions of users.

You will work with AWS/EKS, Kubernetes, and multi-region deployments, ensuring reliability, security, and cost efficiency while leveraging AI to accelerate development.

Join a fast-growing AI-native company committed to scalable, enterprise-grade infrastructure and cross-functional collaboration.