Software Engineer, Backend
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
About Clay
Why is Clay the best place to work
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)
Well-resourced - We raised a $100M Series C in 2025 at a $3.1B valuation and are backed by world-class investors like Capital G (Google) Sequoia and Meritech
Read more about why people love working at Clay here and explore our wall of love to learn more about the product.
Software Engineering Backend @ Clay
Given our rapid growth over the past couple of years we often have to solve pressing scaling problems to accommodate the increased load. As a Software Engineer on the Performance team youll be responsible for identifying these problems and then developing systems that optimize the throughput and reliability of our core systems. Strong candidates here will have a track record of solving large-scale systems problems and laying the foundation for performance observability.
What Youll Do
Perform comprehensive analyses of our systems to identify and address performance bottlenecks.
Create and monitor meaningful performance metrics for various components of our services
Advise other teams within engineering on scalable and performant feature design and implementation
Address critical scalability challenges such as sharding Postgres and Redis splitting ECS tasks into multiple services to scale independently and addressing Node event loop blockages.
What Youll Bring
A results-oriented mindset and a bias toward impact
Experience in API latency optimization
Experience with SQL and related technologies preferably Postgres
Experience in a role with a focus on performance aspects
Experience in query optimization and schema design for relational databases and distributed search engines
Expertise in any of the following: Redis Postgres ElasticSearch or Opensearch
Nice To Haves
Diversity of perspectives and interests. We hope to build a team that is curious and open-minded.
Experience working with systems & data at scale. May be building large-scale high-performance data pipelines event ingestion systems or generally working with larger production systems
Advanced proficiency in optimizing serverless workloads on AWS
Experience with our current tech stack:
React Typescript Python
AWS services: Aurora (Postgres) Elasticache (Redis) Elastic Container Registry (ECR) ECS (Fargate) Lambda OpenSearch
IaC: Terraform
Deployment tools: CircleCI Netlify Playwright
Observability tools: Cloudwatch Datadog Mezmo
Key Skills
- Business Intelligence
- Bidding
- Accounts Assistant Credit Control
- Account Development
- Content Development
- Lab Testing
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