Senior Backend Engineer, Platform

- Build upon and integrate customer feedback, both internal and external, into our API tooling and shared services.

- Create new architectural foundations and mission-critical distributed systems while collaborating closely with other teams.

- Work within an agile, scrum-based engineering team focused on core platform capabilities.

- Advocate for, create, and maintain API governance across engineering through collaboration, automation, and outreach.

- Own integrations within our API Gateway layer and service lifecycles from design to production.

- Identify improvements to the design and implementation of new and existing critical shared services.

- Help grow our infrastructure engineering organization's shared services relied upon by other engineering teams to accelerate product development.

- Support the platform capabilities that power ClickUp's AI initiatives, including Brain and Agents.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.

- Strong understanding of API standards, design approaches, and integration patterns.

- Strong understanding of CAP Theorem and distributed systems design patterns.

- Prior high-scale experience with Postgres, MySQL, or another relational database, specifically from the standpoint of tuning the database and the infrastructure it runs on, not just chasing down slow queries.

- A strong operational background with Datadog, Honeycomb, OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Grafana/etc.

- Strong consideration for developer experience in everything you build.

- Experience working with Kafka and related event-based patterns.

- Experience working with and designing Backend for Frontend (BFF) patterns.

- Experience supporting modern AI technologies, including MCP protocol and standards.

- Experience building shared services and platform capabilities that enable AI products and agent-based systems.

- Experience running OpenSearch, ElasticSearch, or Solr clusters.