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title: 'Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Infrastructure at ClickUp'
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# Senior Manager, Software Engineering - Infrastructure at ClickUp

- **Company:** [ClickUp](https://feeny.ai/companies/clickup)
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clickup/3748c7fd-6564-418e-9a35-fca5d40e326f

## 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. 🚀

This role bridges infrastructure and product engineering: you'll build genuine partnerships across product, AI, and enterprise teams so that ownership is shared and velocity is never blocked by platform constraints. As a leader, you'll set a forward-looking cloud vision, proactively align with stakeholders across the business, and ensure the platform scales for multi-shard, multi-region growth while meeting security and compliance commitments (SOC 2, business continuity/disaster recovery, and enterprise security frameworks). You'll implement and drive the adoption of AI-powered tooling and autonomous agents within the infrastructure organization.

The Role:

- Cost Efficiency: Deliver measurable annual infrastructure savings by executing the migration of data workloads to EKS and self-hosting key services.
- Ingress Convergence: Deprecate legacy frontend ALBs and consolidate to a single EKS-managed ALB per shard, unblocking faster deployments across the org.
- Coverage & Bench Depth: Eliminate single points of ownership across Networking, OpenSearch, and Terraform through cross-training and targeted hiring.
- Stakeholder Alignment: Stand up a recurring alignment cadence with Product, AI, Enterprise, and Security so infra planning is driven by demand, not ad-hoc interrupts.
- Automation: Ship automated shard buildout via Backstage to remove manual toil from enterprise scaling.
- Reliability: Cut P0/P1 incidents attributed to Cloud Platform (DNS, ALB misconfiguration, EKS) through hardened ingress patterns and Terraform-policy guardrails. Own incident response and RCA follow-through for the team.
- Roadmap Ownership: Own and deliver against the team's roadmap for Agent enablement, centralized IaC, and deployment rollout acceleration, and contribute to the broader Cloud Platform strategy tied to AI and Enterprise revenue goals.
- Technical Leadership: Architect and contribute code to key initiatives (EKS migration, ALB consolidation, Backstage shard automation), and lead design reviews with senior engineers.
- People Leadership: Lead, grow, and retain a senior-heavy team distributed across the US, Canada, and Europe, spanning FTEs and contractors, with a focus on career development, cross-training, and bench depth.
- Vendor Management: Partner with Finance and leadership on AWS spend visibility and savings targets, manage contractor performance and budget, and keep a savings-pipeline mindset baked into planning.

Qualifications:

- Experience: 9+ years in infrastructure/platform engineering, including 5+ years in engineering management leading distributed teams of senior engineers while remaining hands-on.
- Deep AWS infrastructure mastery: EKS, networking (VPC/TGW/DNS), and Terraform at scale, with strong architectural judgment; able to review designs and guide senior engineers' technical decisions.
- Hands-on technical leadership: Actively architects, writes code, and develops systems alongside the team. You are a working engineer as well as a manager.
- Strategic roadmap ownership: Experience translating cloud priorities into 3–9 month team roadmaps tied to business outcomes across enterprise, AI, and cost, and delivering against them.
- Cross-team influence: Builds genuine partnerships across Product, Security, SRE, and DB orgs, driving shared ownership across traditional infra/product boundaries.
- Application-level curiosity: Genuinely understands what the product does, not just the infrastructure underneath, and extends ownership past traditional platform boundaries.
- People leadership: Proven experience managing, growing, and retaining senior, geographically distributed teams across FTE/contractor blends; builds bench depth and contributes to succession planning.
- Hiring: Experience running structured hiring loops and closing senior engineers, including into specialized gaps (networking, search, IaC).
- Operational rigor: Strong on-call instincts, incident ownership, and RCA follow-through.
- Security-first instincts: This team touches blast radius (auth enforcement, network isolation, shard boundaries). A verify-first, never-assume mindset is non-negotiable.
- AI & automation mindset: Uses AI tools daily in your own engineering work, with demonstrated appetite for DevSecOps agents, AI-assisted IaC migrations, and skills-based automation — a core part of the near-term roadmap.
- AI/ML infrastructure experience (strong plus): Scaling workloads like GPU orchestration, model-serving infrastructure, or cost-optimized compute for inference.
- Education: BS/MS in CS, Engineering, or equivalent.

## 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.

AI Processing Notice ClickUp may use artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to help review and screen candidates' employment applications against role-related criteria. These tools support, but do not replace, human decision‑making. If you have questions or need an accommodation in the recruitment process, please contact us at AskPeople@ClickUp.com.

## 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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