Our mission is to make the world more productive. To do this, we built the everything app for work - Tasks, Docs, Goals, and Chat. Backed by Lightspeed and a16z.
About the role
Own the technical architecture of ClickUp's data platform, making design decisions that balance scalability, cost, reliability, and velocity. Define and drive the technical roadmap for data infrastructure in partnership with leadership.
What they're looking for
- Significant professional experience in data engineering or backend/infrastructure engineering, with at least 3 years operating at a senior or staff level
- Proven track record of owning architecture for data platforms or large-scale distributed systems
- Deep expertise in AWS cloud services (Lambda, Fargate, Step Functions, S3, Kinesis, DynamoDB, Aurora) and infrastructure as code (Terraform and/or CDK)
- Expert-level SQL and Snowflake (or equivalent cloud data warehouse) knowledge, including performance tuning and cost optimization
- Strong experience with dbt and modern ELT/ETL patterns at scale
- Advanced Python skills with emphasis on building reusable libraries, frameworks, and tooling
More about this role
At ClickUp, we're building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. We are an AI-native company. Every team member is expected to leverage AI daily, and we evaluate AI fluency as part of our hiring process. Join us and help redefine what's possible. 🚀
We're looking for a Staff Data Engineer to own the architecture and technical vision of our data platform. This is a high-leverage, high-autonomy role where you'll set the technical bar for the team, drive cross-functional alignment on data infrastructure strategy, and solve our hardest engineering problems. You'll operate across AWS serverless technologies, Snowflake, dbt, and Terraform, but your impact goes well beyond any single tool: you'll shape how we think about reliability, scalability, cost, and developer experience at the platform level.
This role is for someone who doesn't just build great systems, but makes the engineers around them better.
Own the technical architecture of ClickUp's data platform, making design decisions that balance scalability, cost, reliability, and velocity.
Define and drive the...
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