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ClickUp · 5 hours ago

Staff Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

$200K/yr - $242K/yr

8+ years exp

ClickUp is a company focused on redefining productivity through innovative software solutions. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to architect and scale their test infrastructure, ensuring the reliability and performance of their AI-powered platform. The role involves designing testing frameworks, implementing AI-driven tools, and fostering a culture of quality within the engineering team.

AppsCollaborationProductivity ToolsSaaSSoftwareTask Management

No H1B

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain internal tools and comprehensive frameworks supporting unit, integration, API, and UI testing using modern approaches with Jest, Locust, Flutter (iOS & Android) and Playwright

Implement containerized, reproducible test environments using Docker and CI/CD pipelines to support local and large-scale execution

Contribute to integration testing strategies for inter-service validation and shared dependencies

Architect and evolve the load, scale, and performance testing systems used to understand the limits of our system, verify system resilience and protect our critical user journeys

Build data-generation pipelines to create realistic workloads and performance test scenarios

Use APM tools (Datadog RUM, APM, DBM preferred) for build-over-build monitoring and troubleshooting

Evaluate and implement AI-driven tools for automated test generation and maintenance

Integrate self-healing, intelligent failure analysis, and test recommendations into CI pipelines

Partner with teams to adopt the tools and frameworks built by Test Infrastructure, with a shift-left strategy in mind

Champion best practices around metrics-based test infrastructure observability and monitoring

Mentor teammates on software architecture and design patterns

Qualification

TypeScriptNodePlaywrightDockerAI-assisted testingRESTful APIsCI/CD pipelinesPerformance testingSystem designScalabilityMentoring

Required

Solid experience as a software engineer in fast-paced product environments

Expertise in TypeScript, Node and experience with test frameworks like Playwright, Cypress, Jest, Mocha, Flutter, Detox, Moropo, Locust, JMeter or custom-built tools

Strong fullstack understanding with deep knowledge of RESTful APIs, message queues, and service oriented architecture

Experience with Docker, local environment orchestration, and integrating tests into CI pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Harness)

A strong understanding of modern test pyramid principles, including balancing unit, integration, and end-to-end test automation and the tools and processes to measure and improve test coverage and test impact analysis

Expertise across network layers with HAR and performance metric analysis

Demonstrated interest or experience in AI-assisted code generation & prompt engineering using LLMs

Passion for system design, scalability, and thoughtful failure investigation