# Staff Data Engineer at ClickUp

- Company: ClickUp
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://clickup.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $169K to $211K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-30
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clickup/e8c4b937-621a-47c1-b71c-f36073a62ec2
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/clickup-staff-data-engineer/

## 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

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