Senior Database Reliability Engineer, ClickUp
Workplace productivity platform
Job no longer available
Workplace productivity platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To save people time by making the world more productive.
Role
Who you are
- 5 years of experience running PostgreSQL in large production environments
- 2 years of experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management (Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Terraform…)
- Managed a DB at least 100GB in size on a high OLTP throughput database environment
- 2 years of experience with any programming language
- Linux and/or the Unix Shell
- Have solid knowledge of SQL and PL/pgSQL
- Have solid knowledge of the internals of PostgreSQL
- Have experience working in a distributed production environment
- Share ClickUp’s core values and work in accordance with those values
- Have excellent written and verbal English communication skills
- Great collaborations skills and can communicate asynchronously
- Being Proactive - You see something broken, you can't help but fix it!
- Urge for delivering quickly and iterating fast
- Have a passion for stable and secure systems management practices
- Not an absolute requirement, but cloud technology experience with AWS, Azure, GCP - is a preferred requirement
- Some data modeling and design skills
- Show ownership of Relational Database/PostgreSQL ecosystem
- Open to learning and possibly owning non-relational database technologies - DynamoDB, Redis, etc.
What the job involves
- Your primary responsibility as a DBRE is in keeping the database systems running smoothly, ensuring full observability and allowing push-button deployment of the database infrastructure
- Work on database reliability and performance aspects for ClickUp from within Platform Engineering
- Provide emergency response for PagerDuty OnCall or by reacting proactively to foreseeable issues
- Implement best practices for our main PostgreSQL database cluster and its components
- Work on observability of relevant database metrics and make sure we reach our database objectives
- Work with peer SREs to roll out changes to our production environment and help mitigate database-related production incidents
- Provide database expertise to engineering teams (review of database migrations, queries and performance optimizations)
- Work on automation of database infrastructure and help engineering succeed by providing self-service tools
- Plan the growth and manage the capacity of ClickUp's database infrastructure
- Design, build and maintain core database infrastructure pieces that allow ClickUp to scale
- Support and debug database production issues across services and levels of the stack
- Make monitoring and alerting alert on symptoms and SLOs, and not on outages
- Document every action so your learnings turn into repeatable actions, then into automation
- Perform and run blameless RCA's on incidents and outages, relentlessly looking for answers that will prevent the incident from ever happening again
Our take
Clickup provides a set of professional tools for collaborative project management, spreadsheets, document processing and workplace communication which are accessed from a single platform. In contrast to most of the austere, pared-back tools you might find in the workplace, it takes a playful approach, with its programs looking more like fun consumer-focused apps while still being fully-featured.
The company isn't alone in the workplace productivity market, counting Asana, Jira, Slack, and Monday among just a few of its competitors. However its advantage comes from its unified platform which encourages users to stay in ClickUp's ecosystem rather than look outside for other tools. Indeed, the vast majority of its users utilise three or more of its products. This has led to strong success in its market, with over 800,000 teams using the platform in enterprises such as IBM, logitech and Spotify.
ClickUp has been the beneficiary of a significant amount of investment, which it has used to develop its product and expand internationally. As it grows its footprint in Asia and Europe, where nearly half of its customers are based, it has also unveiled a new version of its platform which integrates AI writing and advanced search tools. The company is well poised to deliver on its vision of becoming the one app to replace them all.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2021
$400m
SERIES C
Dec 2020
$100m
SERIES B
Total funding: $537.2m
Company benefits
- 16" MacBook Pro
- Moving Expenses
- $200/mo commuter benefits
- Team lunches each week
- 401(k) match up to 2%
- Unlimited snacks, kombucha, and cold brew
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- ClickUp swag
- Teammate recognition rewards
- Flexible PTO
Company HQ
East Village, San Diego, CA
Leadership
Alex Yurkowski
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously co-founded Mango Technologies. Experience as a Software Engineer for IBM and as an iOS Developer for Notre Dame Research Group.
Zeb Evans
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded Fast Followerz and spent one year as a Monorail Driver for Walt Disney World.
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