# Director, Software Engineering

**Company:** [ClickUp](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/clickup)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $300k – $350k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** AWS, EKS, Terraform, Vpc, Tgw, DNS, Opensearch, Backstage, Iac, DevSecOps, Gpu Orchestration, Model Serving
**Posted:** 2026-07-09

> Lead ClickUp's Cloud Platform team to build scalable, cost-efficient AWS infrastructure (EKS, Terraform, networking) that supports AI and enterprise growth. Requires 10+ years infrastructure experience, director-level people leadership of distributed teams, deep architectural expertise, and strong cross-functional influence.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead ClickUp's Cloud Platform team to deliver reliable, cost-efficient, and scalable AWS infrastructure that stays 3–6 months ahead of product and enterprise demand.
- Bridge infrastructure and product engineering by building partnerships across product, AI, and enterprise teams to share ownership and maintain velocity.
- Set a forward-looking cloud vision, proactively align with stakeholders, and ensure the platform scales for multi-shard, multi-region growth while meeting security and compliance commitments (M365, BCDR, SOC 2).
- Drive millions in annual savings by migrating data workloads to EKS and self-hosting OpenSearch on EKS.
- Deprecate legacy frontend ALBs and consolidate to a single EKS-managed ALB per shard to enable faster deployments.
- Eliminate single points of ownership across Networking, OpenSearch, and Terraform through cross-training and targeted hiring.
- Stand up recurring alignment cadence with Product, AI, Enterprise, and Security teams.
- Ship automated shard buildout via Backstage to remove manual toil.
- Cut P0/P1 incidents through hardened ingress patterns and Terraform-policy guardrails.
- Deliver Q3/Q4 roadmap covering Agent enablement, centralized IaC, and deployment rollout acceleration tied to AI and Enterprise revenue goals.
- Manage a senior-heavy team distributed across the US, Canada, and Europe (FTEs and contractors) with focus on succession planning and bench depth.
- Own multi-million dollar AWS spend accountability and contractor oversight with a savings-pipeline mindset.

## Requirements
- Deep AWS infrastructure mastery: EKS, networking (VPC/TGW/DNS), Terraform at scale with strong architectural opinions.
- Track record setting 6-12 month cloud roadmaps tied to business outcomes (enterprise, AI, cost).
- Cross-team influence across Product, Security, SRE, and DB orgs; ability to break "hesitant to cross the boundary" culture.
- Application-level curiosity and understanding of what the product does.
- People leadership at scale: managed and grown senior-heavy, geographically distributed teams with FTE/contractor blends; build bench depth and succession plans.
- Strong operational rigor: on-call instincts, incident ownership, RCA follow-through.
- Security-first instincts with verify-first mindset (auth enforcement, network isolation, shard boundaries).
- AI & automation mindset for DevSecOps agents, AI-assisted IaC migrations, and skills-based automation.
- BS/MS in CS, Engineering, or equivalent.
- 10+ years in infrastructure/platform engineering with significant time in a director-level role managing distributed teams.

## Nice-to-Haves
- AI/ML infrastructure experience: scaling workloads like GPU orchestration, model-serving infra, or cost-optimized compute for inference.

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