Senior Software Engineer Search Infrastructure
Senior Software Engineer Search Infrastructure
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About Clay
Clay is a creative tool for growth. Our mission is to help businesses grow without huge investments in tooling or manual labor. Were already helping over 100000 people grow their business with Clay. From local pizza shops to enterprises like Anthropic and Notion our tool lets you instantly translate any idea that you have for growing your company into reality. Were looking for sharp lowego people to help us turn every businesss creative ideas into a reality. Read this article to see why Clay is an amazing place to work and explore our wall of love to learn more about the product.
Why is Clay the best place to work in New York
Customers love the product 100K users and growing)
Were growing a lot 6x YoY last year and 10x YoY the two years before that)
Incredible culture (our customers keep applying to work here)
Inperson work (beautiful office space in Flatiron)
Wellresourced (raised a Series B expansion in January 2025 from investors like Sequoia and Meritech)
Software Engineering @ Clay
As a Senior Search Infrastructure Engineer you will support the search platform and solutions built on top it.
You will work with various teams on functionality powered by search advising them on search solutions how to properly structure their data and how to write their queries.
This will include assessing service stability exploring ways to increase resiliency sizing cluster hardware and optimizing the stack.
In this role youll be providing the best experience for internal and external customers. This work has extremely high impact and will contribute directly to the success of Clay.
What Youll Do
Support search infrastructure and functionality enabling stable and successful search experiences for our customers.
Automate observability and resilience. Enable all developers to troubleshoot and resolve problems relating to search.
Take steps required to ensure we hit defined SLOs.
Build relationships with engineers and drive the search solutions roadmap.
Develop search expertise through knowledge sharing and an active review process.
What Youll Bring
You have experience supporting Opensearch or Elasticsearch clusters in a production environment including scaling and debugging cloudbased infrastructure through GCP AWS or Azure.
You have intimate knowledge of search queries scale and limitations. You can advise and troubleshoot search issues for our different engineering teams.
You have handson coding experience developing services.
You see mentorship knowledge transfer and review as essential prerequisites for a healthy team.
You keep uptodate on search solutions.
Life @ Clay
Based out of a central office on 19th Street in Manhattans Flatiron District. We love the energy of inperson collaboration while also offering the flexibility to work from home when needed.
Competitive salary and role trajectory: Roles responsibilities and comp grow as we do
Health insurance: Fully funded high quality health dental & vision coverage (including 80100 therapy coverage)
Visa sponsorship: We get it its an arduous process but were not scared of it
Paid time off: We expect team members to take at least 3 weeks fullydisconnected per year with a flexible vacation policy beyond that
Free food: Free meals in office every day and unlimited snacks
Parental leave & fertility support: IVF fertility benefits egg freezing and 4 months of paid parental leave
Learn more about Clay and what its like to work with us right here!
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
