Staff Data Engineer
Summary
Staff Data Engineer owning the architecture and technical vision of ClickUp's data platform: building and evolving data pipelines with AWS serverless services (Lambda, Fargate, Step Functions, Kinesis), Snowflake, dbt, and Terraform, including AI/ML data infrastructure, while mentoring engineers and driving platform-wide standards. The posting lists the role as remote.
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. Design systems at scale : build frameworks, abstractions, and patterns that other engineers use daily. Lead complex, cross-team technical initiatives
spanning data engineering, analytics engineering, data science, and data analytics. Drive cost optimization
across cloud infrastructure and compute, turning efficiency into a competitive advantage. Build and evolve our data pipelines
using AWS serverless (Lambda, Fargate, Step Functions, Kinesis, S3, DynamoDB, Aurora), Snowflake, and dbt. Establish and champion engineering standards : observability, testing, CI/CD, code review, and documentation practices. Design and maintain infrastructure for AI/ML workloads , including LLM frameworks, feature pipelines, training data systems, and model monitoring. Mentor senior engineers , provide technical guidance through design reviews, and raise the overall engineering quality of the team. Influence org-wide technical decisions
and represent data engineering in company-level architecture discussions. Qualifications:
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). Expert-level SQL and Snowflake
(or equivalent cloud data warehouse) knowledge, including performance tuning and cost optimization. Strong experience with dbt
and modern ELT/ETL patterns at scale. Advanced Python skills
with emphasis on building reusable libraries, frameworks, and tooling. Hands-on experience with orchestration frameworks
(Airflow, Dagster, or Prefect) in production environments. Experience building data infrastructure for AI/ML : feature stores, training pipelines, embedding pipelines, model serving, or LLM integration. Location Remote
Skills
- AI
- Airflow
- Analytics
- Aurora
- AWS
- CDK
- CI/CD
- ClickUp
- Cloud
- Dagster
- Data Analytics
- Data Engineering
- Data Pipelines
- Data Science
- Data Warehousing
- dbt
- Developer Experience
- Distributed Systems
- DynamoDB
- ELT
- ETL
- Fargate
- Infrastructure as Code
- Kinesis
- Lambda
- LLM
- Machine Learning
- Observability
- Prefect
- Python
- S3
- Serverless
- Snowflake
- SQL
- Terraform



