Senior Database Reliability Engineer

ClickUp is revolutionizing the way the world works. As the only all-in-one productivity platform built from day one for true convergence, ClickUp unifies tasks, docs, chat, calendar, enterprise search, and more—supercharged by context-driven AI. While others scramble to bundle fragmented tools or bolt on AI, we anticipated this future and made it our foundation from the start. Headquartered in San Diego with a rapidly expanding global footprint, we empower over three million teams to break free from silos and reclaim their time—saving at least one day every week. Join ClickUp, one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies on the planet, and help millions of users transform the way they work. We’re not just building software. We’re shaping the future of work. Come join us in building the future—together. We are looking for driven and innovative software engineers with strong site reliability engineering (SRE) discipline or interest in this area to help us make ClickUp the 'one app to rule them all'. As an SRE at ClickUp, your primary roles will be improving the stability, availability and reliability of our globally distributed and cloud-based infrastructure that powers our app for thousands of users daily. If you are a rockstar engineer with an entrepreneurial and high-paced mindset who are ready to own, drive and tackle some of the most complex problems there are out there we would love to hear from you! What you'll do:Build a deep understanding of how ClickUp's systems behave, scale, interact and fail, and use that insight to identity risks and opportunities for remediationOwn, drive and improve the incident management process across engineering org and participate in the team's follow-the-sun modelDefine SLOs and SLIs for all of our services and introduce error budgetingOwn and improve our observability on all of our servicesBuild software solutions to enable reliability and operability of large scale distributed systems handling petabytes of data and servingBuild tools and automation to eliminate toil and reduce operational overhead. Create frameworks, processes and best practices to be used across ClickUp EngineeringAutomate critical portions of ClickUp engineering processes, to minimize risk and maximize the speed of innovationManage capacity and performance to help scale our infrastructure both on public and private clouds around the worldWhat we’re looking for:Software engineering: At the very core, we are looking strong software engineers with operational, infrastructural or SRE mentality who can design and build systems for platform and infrastructure layersCloud experience: Production working experience in a major cloud environment around doing CI/CD deployments, using managed services, bootstrapping and provisioning services via infrastructure-as-code (IAC) systems, automations and operationsInfrastructure Management: You have worked with and managed production grade infrastructure with IaC tools or configuration management toolsOperating systems: Strong knowledge of *nix based operating systems, their internals and advanced troubleshooting commandsCompute: Experience of working with VMs, containers and container orchestration systemsDatabase: Experience of working with RDBMS and NoSQL storage solutions within production capacity and know your way around running and inspecting queries. A good understanding of indexing, locking, replication and sharding are a bonus! Observability: You have worked with logging, monitoring and alerting tools before and you know how logs are collected, aggregated and injected. You have set up monitors and alerts for production services and know your way around concepts such as SLOs and SLIsBonus points: We believe strong engineers can pick up any technologies and tools fast and hit the ground up running. Therefore, we avoid listing specific technologies. However, if you have worked with at least one of the technologies we have in our stack that would definitely be a bonus point. CloudFormation/CDK, ECS, ElasticBeanstalkPostgreSQL, DynamoDB, AuroraDBTypescript or any JavaScript based frameworkUnsure if you meet all the qualifications of this job description but are deeply excited about the role? We hire based on ambition, grit, and a passion for improving the way people work. If you think ClickUp is the company for you, we encourage you to apply! At ClickUp, we assess every candidate based on the potential impact they can have. We hire the best people for the job and support each person’s journey to build their boldest career. 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. ClickUp collects and processes personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws. If you are a European Job Applicant, see our privacy policy for further details. If you are a Philippine Job Applicant, see our privacy policy and our Philippine Data Privacy Notice for further details. 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. 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