ClickUp
Senior Data Engineer
United States · Senior
No sponsorshipDetected 22 days ago
PythonCode ReviewGitSQLDynamoDBSnowflakeAWSCloud PlatformsDockerTerraformCI/CDKafkaMachine LearningAirflowdbtData EngineeringData ScienceLLMsAI OrchestrationDesign SystemsRecruitingLeadershipCommunicationMentoring
About the role
- Establish and champion engineering standards: observability, testing, CI/CD, code review, and documentation practices.
- Influence org-wide technical decisions and represent data engineering in company-level architecture discussions.
Responsibilities
- 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 technical roadmap for data infrastructure in partnership with leadership.
- Build and evolve our data pipelines using AWS serverless (Lambda, Fargate, Step Functions, Kinesis, S3, DynamoDB, Aurora), Snowflake, and dbt.
- Mentor senior engineers, provide technical guidance through design reviews, and raise the overall engineering quality of the team.
- 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.
Requirements
- 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).
- Strong experience with dbt and modern ELT/ETL patterns at scale.
- Hands-on experience with orchestration frameworks (Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect) in production environments.
- Strong communication skills: ability to write technical RFCs, influence without authority, and translate complex trade-offs for non-technical stakeholders.
- Prior experience in a technical leadership role without direct reports (staff/principal IC track).
- Expert-level SQL and Snowflake (or equivalent cloud data warehouse) knowledge, including performance tuning and cost optimization.
- Advanced Python skills with emphasis on building reusable libraries, frameworks, and tooling.
- Experience building data infrastructure for AI/ML: feature stores, training pipelines, embedding pipelines, model serving, or LLM integration.
- Deep understanding of streaming and event-driven architectures (Kinesis, Kafka, or equivalent).
- Mastery of CI/CD, Git workflows, containerization (Docker), and deployment automation.
- Desirable
Skills
- Track record of mentoring and growing engineers, with a multiplier mindset.
- Experience operating data platforms at high scale (petabyte-level warehouses, millions of events/sec).
- Familiarity with data mesh or data product paradigms.
- Experience with FinOps practices and cloud cost management at scale.
- Contributions to open-source data tools or technical communities.
- ability to write technical RFCs, influence without authority, and translate complex trade-offs for non-technical stakeholders.
- Equal Opportunity Employer
Benefits
- We're looking for a Staff Data Engineer to own the architecture and technical vision of our data platform.
Company info
- 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.
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.
- Visa Sponsorship
- Please note we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for roles outside of engineering and product at this time. Sponsorship for engineering and product roles is not guaranteed, but is instead based on the business needs for that specific role at that time. Please reach out to the recruiter with any questions.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Please note we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for roles outside of engineering and product at this time.
- Sponsorship for engineering and product roles is not guaranteed, but is instead based on the business needs for that specific role at that time.
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