The Staff Software Engineer, Test Infrastructure will design and maintain test automation frameworks, support CI/CD pipelines, and improve testing strategies while mentoring teammates.
ClickUp is revolutionizing the way the world works. As the only all-in-one productivity platform built from day one for true convergence, ClickUp unifies tasks, docs, chat, calendar, enterprise search, and more—supercharged by context-driven AI. While others scramble to bundle fragmented tools or bolt on AI, we anticipated this future and made it our foundation from the start. Headquartered in San Diego with a rapidly expanding global footprint, we empower over three million teams to break free from silos and reclaim their time—saving at least one day every week. Join ClickUp, one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies on the planet, and help millions of users transform the way they work. We’re not just building software. We’re shaping the future of work. Come join us in building the future—together. 🦄
ClickUp is on a mission to make the world more productive — and that starts with enabling our engineering team with the right tools, frameworks, and best practices to protect functionality and performance of the everything app for work. We’re looking for experienced Software Engineers to help us scale our test infrastructure supporting a modern, AI-powered web and mobile platform that reaches millions of users globally.
On this team, you might architect and evolve robust frontend, backend, services or mobile testing infrastructure. Contribute to unit, integration, end-to-end, API, performance, load, and scale testing frameworks across a hybrid monolith and micro-services architecture. Focus on AI-assisted testing solutions, test isolation, prioritization and quarantining strategies, test data generation, CI quality metrics, test impact analysis and flake detection and elimination. We strive to maximize reliability while maintaining velocity.
Functional Web & Mobile Test Infrastructure
- 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
Performance, Scale, Load & Data Generation Test Infrastructure
- 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
AI-Enhanced Test Engineering
- Evaluate and implement AI-driven tools for automated test generation and maintenance
- Integrate self-healing, intelligent failure analysis, and test recommendations into CI pipelines
Culture of Quality
- 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
What You Bring
- Solid experience (8+ years preferred) 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
Bonus Skills
- Built or contributed to internal tools that accelerate code quality or engineering velocity
- Familiarity with observability tools (e.g., DataDog, Sentry) for debugging and quality signals
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Salary and Benefits
At ClickUp, we believe in transparency and fairness in compensation. The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Please note that the actual compensation for this position may vary and is dependent on factors such as geographic location, interview performance, years of experience, education level, and specific skills. We encourage candidates to discuss compensation expectations during the interview process to ensure alignment with their qualifications and our company’s compensation philosophy.
This position is eligible for the following benefits and perks:
- Equity
- 401k
- Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
- Spending accounts
- Life & Disability
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible paid time off
- Enhanced employee assistance program
- Employee wellness stipend
- Professional development stipend
USA Salary Range (OTE)
$200,000—$242,500 USD
Unsure if you meet all the qualifications of this job description but are deeply excited about the role? We hire based on ambition, grit, and a passion for improving the way people work. If you think ClickUp is the company for you, we encourage you to apply!
At ClickUp, we assess every candidate based on the potential impact they can have. We hire the best people for the job and support each person’s journey to build their boldest career.
ClickUp is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
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Top Skills
Detox
Docker
Github Actions
GraphQL
Harness
Jest
Jmeter
Locust
Mocha
Node.js
Playwright
Restful Apis
Typescript
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