Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (AWS EKS, AI-Driven)

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

ClickUp’s Cloud Platform team builds scalable, secure AWS infrastructure with a heavy focus on Amazon EKS, delivering reliability for millions of users. As a Senior Software Engineer, you design, build, and operate the compute and networking foundations and infrastructure-as-code that powers ClickUp for millions of users.

You’ll partner with SRE, Security, product, AI, and enterprise teams to bridge infrastructure and product engineering, own on-call duties, incident response, postmortems, and

Qualifications

• 6+ years building and operating large-scale distributed systems with cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on production Kubernetes experience on EKS at scale.
• Strong AWS services: EKS, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, VPC, IAM, S3.
• Experience with IaC at scale using Terraform.
• Proficiency in Go, Python, or TypeScript/Node.js.
• Experience with hybrid monolith/microservices architectures.
• Security guardrails implementation and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale AWS infrastructure and reusable platform abstractions with focus on Amazon EKS, networking, and self-hosted services.
• Identify improvement opportunities and emerging risks, proposing solutions to improve reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Automate shard buildouts and implement Terraform guardrails and hardened ingress to reduce incidents.
• Scale systems for multi-shard, multi-region growth while meeting compliance attestations and 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.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Go

Python

TypeScript

Distributed systems

Incident response

AI tooling

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS CloudFormation

CI/CD

Job description

ClickUp’s Cloud Platform team builds scalable, secure AWS infrastructure with a heavy focus on Amazon EKS, delivering reliability for millions of users. As a Senior Software Engineer, you design, build, and operate the compute and networking foundations and infrastructure-as-code that powers ClickUp for millions of users.

You’ll partner with SRE, Security, product, AI, and enterprise teams to bridge infrastructure and product engineering, own on-call duties, incident response, postmortems, and