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title: 'Senior Database Reliability Engineer at ClickUp'
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# Senior Database Reliability Engineer at ClickUp

- **Company:** [ClickUp](https://feeny.ai/companies/clickup)
- **Location:** Poland
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-20
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clickup/5d57bcf3-aee7-424f-bf49-053766098f3f/application

**Skills:** PostgreSQL, AWS, Linux, SQL, Bash, Python, Database Administration, Performance Tuning, Backup and Recovery, Disaster Recovery, Capacity Planning, Monitoring Tools, Scripting, AWS RDS, AWS Aurora, AWS EC2, AWS S3, ETL processes, Data pipelines, High availability setups

> The Senior Database Administrator manages PostgreSQL databases on AWS, ensuring performance, integrity, security, and availability. Responsibilities include routine maintenance, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and supporting application teams with query tuning and schema changes.

## Job description

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. 🚀

## About This Role

ClickUp is looking for a Senior Database Reliability Engineer to join our Database Operations team. You’ll be responsible for the performance, integrity, security, and availability of our PostgreSQL databases running on Linux in AWS. This role focuses on day-to-day database administration, operational excellence, and ensuring data is consistently reliable and well-managed across environments.

## Key Responsibilities

- Administer, monitor, and maintain PostgreSQL databases (250GB+) in production environments (AWS RDS, Aurora, EC2)
- Ensure database availability, performance, and data integrity through proactive monitoring and maintenance
- Perform routine database administration tasks including patching, upgrades, vacuuming, reindexing, and statistics management
- Execute and manage backup, restore, and disaster recovery procedures, including regular testing of recovery plans
- Handle user access management, roles, and database security to ensure compliance with best practices
- Perform capacity planning, storage management, and growth forecasting
- Troubleshoot database issues, including performance bottlenecks, locking/contention, and failed jobs
- Support application teams with query tuning, schema changes, and release deployments
- Manage database migrations, upgrades, and change requests with minimal downtime
- Maintain documentation for database configurations, standards, and operational procedures
- Participate in on-call rotations and provide support for production incidents

## Qualifications

- 7+ years of experience in a senior database administrator or Database Engineering role
- Strong hands-on PostgreSQL administration experience, including backups, recovery, and performance tuning
- Solid understanding of database security, access control, and compliance practices
- Experience managing large-scale production databases (250GB+), including maintenance and lifecycle management
- Strong Linux administration skills (processes, disk, memory, networking)
- Experience with monitoring tools and performance diagnostics
- Proficiency in SQL and at least one scripting language (Bash, Python, or similar)
- Familiarity with cloud-based database deployments, preferably AWS (RDS, Aurora, EC2, S3)
- Strong organizational and documentation skills

## Nice to Have

- Experience with database auditing, compliance, or governance frameworks
- Familiarity with ETL processes, data pipelines, or reporting systems
- Experience with high availability setups, replication, and failover management
- Exposure to other database systems (MySQL, SQL Server, or NoSQL platforms)
- Experience supporting enterprise or highly regulated environments

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## 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.

Privacy Notice ClickUp collects and processes personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws. You can find further details by viewing our [Global Candidate Privacy Notice.](https://clickup.com/careers-terms/candidate-privacy-notice) If you are a Philippine Job Applicant, please also see our [Philippine Data Privacy Notice](https://t333.s.clickup-attachments-stg.com/t333/d9a53ce2-6d2c-48cd-84b1-ed4e525f9613/Philippine%20Data%20Privacy%20Notice_2024.pdf?view=open) for further details.

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.

Fraud Alert ClickUp Talent Acquisition will only initiate contact via an @[clickup.com](http://clickup.com) email or through our official careers portal on [clickup.com](http://clickup.com). We will never request fees, payments, or sensitive personal information. Please disregard any offers received outside these channels and report them to support@clickup.com.

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## About ClickUp

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: ClickUp provides an all-in-one productivity platform that replaces fragmented work tools with a unified solution for tasks, documents, collaboration, and AI-powered agents.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Diego, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Zeb Evans and Alex Yurkowski

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Productivity Software / Project Management / AI Agents
- **Target customers**: B2B, serving teams of all sizes from SMBs to 85% of the Fortune 500 [clickup.com]
- **Mission**: Maximize human productivity by fundamentally reinventing how work gets done through the convergence of software, AI, and humans [clickup.com/careers]

## Products & Services
- **ClickUp Platform**: The core product — an everything app for work combining tasks, docs, chat, whiteboards, goals, timelines, and 100+ product replacements [clickup.com]
- **Brain²**: ClickUp’s AI engine that intelligently routes tasks to the best frontier model (GPT, Claude Opus, Gemini, etc.) with full workspace context, memory, and preferences [clickup.com]
- **Super Agents**: Configurable AI agents that automate workflows — including PM Agent, Assign Agent, and Live Answers Agent — with the ability to build custom agents using any MCP (Model Context Protocol) connection [clickup.com]
- **ClickUp Apps**: Integrations with Google Drive, GitHub, Salesforce, Slack, and thousands of other tools [clickup.com]

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $4 billion (latest round, per Tracxn) [tracxn.com]
- **Total Funding**: $535 million raised [tracxn.com]
- **Key Metric**: Over 5 million teams use ClickUp; 85% of Fortune 500 companies are customers [clickup.com]
- **Notable Investors**: Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global Management, Craft Ventures [tracxn.com]
- **Growth Signals**: 1,529 employees as of March 2026; strong adoption of AI agents with 3M+ tasks automated; Forrester TEI study reports 384% ROI and payback in under 6 months for customers [tracxn.com, clickup.com]

## Competitive Advantages
- **Convergence over bundling**: Unlike competitors who bolt together separate tools, ClickUp was built from the ground up as one unified platform, giving Brain² full context across all work types (tasks, docs, conversations, files) — context that competitor AI tools lack [clickup.com/about]
- **Model-agnostic AI**: Brain² intelligently routes each query to the best frontier model (GPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.), delivering optimal performance without vendor lock-in [clickup.com]
- **Enterprise-grade security**: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA compliant, with AI privacy protections exceeding standard enterprise SaaS [clickup.com]
- **Massive product surface area**: 100+ products in one platform means customers can consolidate an entire tech stack, creating deep switching costs

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-first convergence**: Deep investment in AI agents (Super Agents) and ambient intelligence that anticipates user needs rather than just responding to commands [clickup.com]
- **Platform expansion**: Continuing to absorb adjacent tool categories (chat, docs, whiteboards, goals) to eliminate toggling between apps [clickup.com/careers]
- **Enterprise scale**: Targeting larger deployments with proven ROI data and robust compliance/security posture

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & values**: The company emphasizes grit, growth mindset (“grow 1% every day”), passion, and hard work. Core value: “Normal f*cking sucks” — a rejection of status quo thinking [clickup.com/careers]
- **Impact**: Employees are empowered to work across AI, product, and engineering — “you don’t need to be an engineer to dive deep into leveraging AI” [clickup.com/careers]
- **Work model**: Remote-friendly with offices in San Diego (HQ), United States, Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom, Australia, and globally [clickup.com/about]
- **Perks**: Generous PTO, health plans, retirement benefits, wellness programs, and parental leave [clickup.com/careers]
- **Growth**: The company explicitly hires for potential impact and supports “building your boldest career”; recent headcount of 1,529 signals continued scaling [tracxn.com, clickup.com/careers]

## Sources
1. [ClickUp Careers Page](https://clickup.com/careers)
2. [ClickUp About Page](https://clickup.com/about)
3. [ClickUp Homepage](https://clickup.com/)
4. [Tracxn Company Profile](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/clickup/__lm2pfON0Ef7h6Fu5h9GkLd9_fspnDEnBOL2bEKJxWkg)

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