Principal DevOps

ClickUp is the world's only all-in-one productivity platform that flexes to the way people want to work. It replaces all individual workplace productivity tools with a single, unified platform including project management, document collaboration, spreadsheets, chat, goals, and more. On a mission to make the world more productive, ClickUp is headquartered in San Diego and scaling remotely and internationally. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in the world, ClickUp helps millions of users to be more productive and save at least one day every week. 🦄

• Direct Platform engineering towards a holistic view of infrastructure architecture using standardization patterns across multiple engineering teams 
• Develop, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines while helping developers translate POC solutions to production-ready templates in terraform and CDK (we use both).
• Build a foundation of solid and proven competency in the concept, planning, and implementation of complex software solutions.
• Develop best practices for application development/software engineering, covering Full Stack, Devops, QA, Cybersecurity, Monitoring.
• Responsible for overseeing the full product development lifecycle, from gathering requirements, to prioritizing features, assisting engineers writing specifications, reviewing execution plans and ensuring alignment against strategic technology development goals.
• Resolve ambiguity, highlight risk, and provide predictable estimates for deliverables
• Balance resources across multiple projects already in flight, and build plans for upcoming roadmap deliverables.
• Identify risks early and often, and suggest mitigation strategies that consider multiple paths and pragmatic solutions. Be able to offer alternative approaches, balancing technology and business requirements against time and resources.
• Significant experience working with cross-functional teams like product management, sales, data science, marketing, etc., as well as external third-party vendors
• A rigorous approach to testing: unit testing, functional testing, integration testing
• Creating and managing CI/CD pipelines to support deployment and lifecycle management

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent major.
• 8+ years experience with Terraform and/or CloudFormation using high volume logging solutions (OpenSearch, Kafka, fluentbit/FluentD)
• 8+ years experience in managing cloud environments/systems
• Direct experience in Full Stack application development from scratch
• Global project-level design and architecture exposure in building large scale enterprise SaaS solutions using cloud technologies.
• Significant experience working with cross-functional teams like product management, sales, data science, marketing, etc., as well as external third-party vendors
• Demonstrated/Expert knowledge use of Elastic Stack/OpenSearch and/or PostgresSQL 

• Senior or above level experience working within a startup and/or fast growth environment/culture 
• Significant experience working with cross-functional teams like product management, sales, data science, marketing, etc., as well as external third-party vendors
• Direct experience mentoring/developing engineering teams on design and optimal scaling solutions in AWS 

ClickUp was founded on a culture of hard work, consistent growth, and a desire to break norms. We’re a values-driven company and hire based on ambition, merit, and a willingness to do what it takes to succeed. We don’t care where you’re from, what you look like, or who you’re in a relationship with—we hire the best people for the job, and create an environment that supports employees on their journey to do the most exciting work of their lives! 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.