Senior Backend Engineer, Platform

Department: Engineering

Location: United States

Compensation: $160K – $210K

Employment Type: FullTime

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. 🚀

The Role:

• Build upon and integrate customer feedback, both internal and external, into our API tooling and shared services.

• Create new architectural foundations and mission-critical distributed systems while collaborating closely with other teams.

• Work within an agile, scrum-based engineering team focused on core platform capabilities.

• Advocate for, create, and maintain API governance across engineering through collaboration, automation, and outreach.

• Own integrations within our API Gateway layer and service lifecycles from design to production.

• Identify improvements to the design and implementation of new and existing critical shared services.

• Help grow our infrastructure engineering organization's shared services relied upon by other engineering teams to accelerate product development.

• Support the platform capabilities that power ClickUp's AI initiatives, including Brain and Agents.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.

• Strong understanding of API standards, design approaches, and integration patterns.

• Strong understanding of CAP Theorem and distributed systems design patterns.

• Prior high-scale experience with Postgres, MySQL, or another relational database, specifically from the standpoint of tuning the database and the infrastructure it runs on, not just chasing down slow queries.

• A strong operational background with Datadog, Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Grafana/etc.

• Proficient with TypeScript.

• Proficient with Golang.

• Strong consideration for developer experience in everything you build.

Desirable:

• Experience working with Kafka and related event-based patterns.

• Experience working with and designing Backend for Frontend (BFF) patterns.

• Experience supporting modern AI technologies, including MCP protocol and standards.

• Experience building shared services and platform capabilities that enable AI products and agent-based systems.

• Experience running OpenSearch, ElasticSearch, or Solr clusters.

Equal Opportunity Employer

ClickUp is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

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