Software Engineer (Prior Staff Principal Experience)

Our mission is to help organizations turn any growth idea into reality.

We see growth as a creative practice not a formula. Finding and reaching your best-fit customers takes unique ideas and constant iteration. As AI makes execution faster and tactics easier to copy creativity is the only lasting advantage. Were already helping thousands of customers including Anthropic Notion Google and Ramp go to market with unique data signals and AI research.

In 2025 we raised a $100M Series C backed by world-class investors including Sequoia CapitalG and First Round and crossed $100M in revenue.

In 2026 we announced our second employee tender offer in 9 months at a new $5B valuation. We also launched a community equity round for our customers agency partners and club members.

Some things to know about us:

• Our community includes 11000 customers 150 integration partners 125 agencies 50 Clay clubs and 30k members on Slack.

• Our culture is unique inside and outside of work. Our team members are also DJs activists writers clowns marathoners skydivers psychedelic therapists social workers and more.

• All employees can work for free with world-class coaches who specialize in creativity management and more.

• Our operating principles including negative maintenance and non-attached action guide our work. Read more about them here.

• Read about us in the NYT Forbes First Round Review and more.

Hear from our employees directly on our Glassdoor page!

While we dont have titles at Clay (everyone here is a Software Engineer sorry!) were always looking for technical leaders who can play a key role in driving business outcomes and impact across the engineering organization. Youll leverage your technical expertise to shape strategic direction execute ambitious and complex projects and elevate the overall effectiveness of the team. Your impact will go beyond individual contributions: youll shape architecture mentor engineers and drive process improvements to enhance efficiency scalability and the overall effectiveness of the engineering organization. Therell be no shortage of fun problems to explore and technical challenges to solve.

Were hiring across many skillsets (product engineering platform engineering AI engineering security devEx etc) but broadly the expectations for engineers of this seniority are:

• Big picture thinking. Youll take a step back and see beyond the immediate details the current roadmap and the individual teams. Youll set the technical strategy for the domains that you cover.

• Executing. The projects you take on may be messier more ambiguous or more technically complex. You can bust through obstacles that block others but youll also often have to rely on larger groups of people and/or the trust and influence you have within the organization to succeed and scale your impact.

• Leveling up the team. Youll influence engineers at the company via teaching mentoring reviewing designs and proposals and reviewing code. Youll also serve as a role model for the team around ownership technical designs & implementation and participation in the company culture.

• Youve had an outsized impact in previous roles. This can mean a lot of thingscreating leverage for an entire EPD organization building foundational systems that scale for years launching new products or businesses that generate meaningful revenue or bringing deep frontend and UX expertise to create exceptional product experiencesbut your influence has been broad and your impact deep.

• Youve worked at startups and scale-ups and are comfortable building for a continually growing level of scale.

• You have excellent product intuition. You have the ability to think broadly and cross-functionally around how your technical decisions will impact the end-user product experience both in terms of how existing features work as well as what new functionality could be unlocked.

• You are an empathetic communicator. You express nuanced ideas clearly at different levels of abstraction for different disagreements you prioritize curiosity over confrontation making sure everyone feels heard and understood. You avoid tying your ego to the systems youve built or are trying to build.

• Youre familiar with our current tech stack or can learn unfamiliar technologies quickly. Our current tech stack is:

  • Typescript React Python

  • AWS services: Aurora (Postgres) Elasticache (Redis) Docker Elastic Container Registry (ECR) ECS (Fargate) Lambda OpenSearch

  • IaC: Terraform

  • Deployment tools: Github CircleCI Netlify Playwright

  • Observability tools: Cloudwatch Datadog Mezmo Grafana

Required Experience:

Staff IC