Senior Backend Engineer: AI-Driven AWS EKS Platform

ClickUp; Polska; On-site; PLN 300,000 - 460,000; Full time

Job summary

ClickUp is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Cloud Platform team. You will design, build, and operate the compute, networking, and infrastructure-as-code foundation powering ClickUp for millions of users, with a strong emphasis on AWS and EKS.

You will scale AWS infrastructure, automate guardrails, ensure security and compliance, and collaborate with SRE, Security, product, and AI teams. Daily AI usage is expected to accelerate development and operations.

Qualifications

• 6+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Production Kubernetes expertise on EKS in production environments.
• Strong AWS skills: EKS, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, IAM.
• Multi-account AWS (20+ accounts) experience.
• Terraform IaC at scale; CDK a plus.
• Fluent coding in Go, Python, or TypeScript/Node.js.
• Experience with hybrid monolith/microservices architectures.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, S3, Redis/Valkey.
• Proven reliability improvements and security guardrails.
• Clear written communication and cross-functional collaboration.
• Daily AI usage with concrete examples.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale AWS infrastructure focusing on EKS, networking, and self-hosted services.
• Identify improvement opportunities and mitigate risks before blockers.
• Automate shard buildouts and implement Terraform guardrails and hardened ingress.
• Scale systems for multi-shard, multi-region growth with compliance and DR.
• Partner with SRE, Security, product, AI, and enterprise teams to bridge infrastructure and product engineering.
• Own the reliability of the Cloud Platform including on-call and postmortems.
• Use AI tooling daily to accelerate development, testing, IaC, operations, and investigations.

Skills

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Go

Python

TypeScript/Node.js

Hybrid monolith/microservices

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Redis/Valkey

Security guardrails

Cross-functional collaboration

AI tooling

Tools

Amazon EKS

EC2

Lambda

API Gateway

VPC

IAM

S3

KMS

Terraform

Job description

ClickUp is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for its Cloud Platform team. You will design, build, and operate the compute, networking, and infrastructure-as-code foundation powering ClickUp for millions of users, with a strong emphasis on AWS and EKS.

You will scale AWS infrastructure, automate guardrails, ensure security and compliance, and collaborate with SRE, Security, product, and AI teams. Daily AI usage is expected to accelerate development and operations.