Senior Infra Engineering Lead — Cloud, AI & AWS (Remote)

Devconnectplatform; United States; Remote; USD 250,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

ClickUp is seeking a Senior Manager of Software Engineering - Infrastructure to lead a senior, distributed team across the US, Canada, and Europe. You will set cloud vision, drive cost efficiency, and own the roadmap for AI-enabled infra in a fast-moving, security-conscious environment.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, architectural judgment, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, AI, and Security to scale our platform and deliver reliable, secure services in a remote-first

Qualifications

• 9+ years in infrastructure/platform engineering with 5+ years in engineering management.
• Deep AWS expertise (EKS, networking, Terraform) and scale experience.
• Hands-on technical leadership, architecting and coding alongside the team.
• Strategic roadmaps aligned to business outcomes for AI/enterprise goals.
• Proven ability to hire, grow, and retain senior engineers globally.
• Operational rigor with on-call ownership and RCA follow-through.
• Security-first mindset across auth, network isolation and shard boundaries.
• Experience enabling AI/ML infrastructure is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Deliver measurable infrastructure savings through migrations to EKS and self-hosted services.
• Consolidate ALBs to a single EKS-managed ALB per shard and drive deployment velocity.
• Lead cross-team infra planning with Product, Security, and SRE to ensure alignment.
• Automate shard buildout and reduce toil with Backstage-based tooling.
• Own incident response, post-incident RCA, and resiliency improvements.
• Own the infra roadmap for Agent enablement, centralized IaC, and rollout pace.
• Architect and code on key initiatives; lead design reviews with senior engineers.
• Mentor and grow a senior, distributed team across US, Canada, and Europe.
• Manage vendor relationships, AWS spend visibility, and savings targets.

Skills

Leadership

AWS

EKS

Terraform

Distributed teams

Cloud architecture

Incident RCA

Security mindset

AI infra

Education

BS/MS in CS or Engineering

Tools

Backstage

Terraform

Job description

ClickUp is seeking a Senior Manager of Software Engineering - Infrastructure to lead a senior, distributed team across the US, Canada, and Europe. You will set cloud vision, drive cost efficiency, and own the roadmap for AI-enabled infra in a fast-moving, security-conscious environment.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, architectural judgment, and cross-functional collaboration with Product, AI, and Security to scale our platform and deliver reliable, secure services in a remote-first