Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - AI-Driven Infra & EKS

ClickUp; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

ClickUp is shaping the future of work with an AI-native approach. We are building a scalable Cloud Platform on AWS, focusing on EKS, networking, and secure, cost-efficient infrastructure to support millions of users.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, build, and operate the compute and infrastructure foundation, drive reliability, and collaborate across teams to advance platform capabilities and AI-driven tooling.

Qualifications

• 6+ years building large-scale distributed systems focused on infrastructure and cloud.
• Hands-on Kubernetes in production, ideally Amazon EKS at fleet scale.
• Strong AWS expertise: EKS, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, VPC, IAM, S3, KMS.
• Multi-account AWS experience (20+ accounts).
• IaC at scale with Terraform; CDK experience a plus.
• Fluent in Go, Python, or TypeScript/Node.js.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale AWS infrastructure and reusable platform abstractions focused on EKS and networking.
• Identify risks and propose solutions to improve reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Automate shard buildouts and implement Terraform guardrails and hardened ingress.
• Scale systems for multi-region growth with compliance attestations and security requirements.
• Collaborate with SRE, Security, product, AI and enterprise teams to bridge infrastructure and product engineering.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Go

Python

TypeScript/Node.js

Tools

CDK

Job description

ClickUp is shaping the future of work with an AI-native approach. We are building a scalable Cloud Platform on AWS, focusing on EKS, networking, and secure, cost-efficient infrastructure to support millions of users.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, build, and operate the compute and infrastructure foundation, drive reliability, and collaborate across teams to advance platform capabilities and AI-driven tooling.