Principal Engineer, Collaboration Platforms

What You’ll Do

• Own the long-term technical strategy for ClickUp’s core collaboration platforms, including real-time editing (RTE), live canvases, file uploads, and media streaming.
• Solve our most ambiguous architectural puzzles by diving deep across our full stack (Angular, Quill, WebSockets, Yjs, NodeJS, PostgreSQL, AWS).
• Cultivate operational excellence across the organization by implementing architectural patterns that improve the reliability of all our systems.
• Ship complex, multi-quarter initiatives that unify our collaborative surfaces and provide an innovative advantage in the enterprise market.
• Mentor the next generation of technical guides and elevate ClickUp's engineering culture through your guidance and influence.

Who You Are

• Hands-on technical guide who thrives on solving complex problems that span frontend, backend, and infrastructure boundaries.
• T-shaped engineer with deep expertise in at least one complex technical domain (e.g., real-time collaboration, media pipelines, distributed systems) and proven ability to apply that depth to new areas.
• Know how to transform legacy systems incrementally into scalable and maintainable platforms.
• Guide through influence, not authority, with technical credibility and pragmatic communication to align diverse stakeholders.
• See complex architecture as an opportunity for transformative improvements.
• Specific experience with collaborative technologies is a significant plus.