Senior Security Engineer, Infrastructure Security

About the role

At ClickUp, we're building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. We are an AI-native company. Every team member is expected to leverage AI daily, and we evaluate AI fluency as part of our hiring process. Join us and help redefine what's possible. 🚀

Security at ClickUp

Security at ClickUp is engineering-focused. We partner with teams across the company to protect our platform, our internal systems and our customers through secure design, defensive controls, detection and response. We build tooling and automation, including AI-powered workflows, to turn what we learn into lasting improvements.

About the team

Infrastructure Security at ClickUp secures the cloud, compute, network and access layers underneath ClickUp: a multi-account AWS organization, a large Kubernetes fleet, infrastructure managed as code and the identity systems engineers use to reach production. We are a small team that works agentic first, using AI agents we build and maintain ourselves to multiply what a team our size can cover.

You will support this mission by thinking like a developer, breaking down a problem that we face, testing a method to approach it with automation, and implementing solutions that yield compounding value. Your skills to uncover threat indicators will be the foundation of this work.

The role

- Architecture, proposals and reviews. Act as an initial reviewer on infrastructure proposals and designs from engineering and non-engineering teams such as business systems and go-to-market. Write our own security proposals and review the changes that follow. Translate security requirements and agent findings into clear guidance for less-technical partners, and bring their needs back into our designs.

- Agentic security tooling and agent infrastructure. Build, evaluate and maintain the agents behind our reviews, triage and investigations, and help run the sandboxed, observable infrastructure they operate on.

- Detection, investigation and response. Lead cloud and infrastructure alerts and incidents through to resolution and root cause, working alongside AppSec and incident response on incidents that span both.

- Identity, access and least privilege. Move people, CI and services toward least privilege and just-in-time access across our cloud organization and the tooling engineers use to reach production. Deliver fixes as secure building blocks that teams adopt by default.

- Compute, network and pipeline security. Harden our container, serverless and virtual machine workloads, our network perimeter and our CI/CD pipelines, and add checks so each class of issue is caught automatically next time.

- Continuous review and audit evidence. Move vulnerability, access and attack-surface reviews from point-in-time checks to continuous monitoring that also produces evidence for our infrastructure controls.