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Software Engineer, Backend (Infrastructure & Platform)

Clay· 100 - Engineering
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Hybrid (New York)$170k - $300kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Software Engineer focused on infrastructure and platform systems that power Clay’s products, with emphasis on scale, reliability, performance, execution/orchestration, observability, and shaping foundational primitives used by product teams.

Responsibilities

  • Scale, reliability, and performance. Address DB contention, memory pressure, throughput ceilings, and bottlenecks; set performance and reliability targets as we scale.
  • Platforms other engineers build on. Define primitives, contracts, and extension points for product teams to ship on shared infrastructure.
  • Execution and orchestration. Evolve how work is defined, scheduled, retried, and observed across the product.
  • Observability. Provide instrumentation for customers and engineers to understand runs, failures, and causes.
  • Raise the bar around you. Set technical direction and elevate engineering standards through design reviews, code reviews, and leaving behind robust systems.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of hands-on experience building and operating production systems at scale.
  • Spikes in at least one area: Scale, reliability, and performance OR Platform and frameworks (built internal-facing platforms).
  • Experience thinking of platforms as products and designing for consumer success.
  • Comfort with distributed systems, concurrency, queuing, backpressure, failure recovery, and underlying data models.
  • Clear written communication (design docs and RFCs) that articulate tradeoffs and alignment.
  • Familiarity with or ability to learn: React, TypeScript, Python, Node.js; AWS (Aurora/Postgres, Elasticache/Redis, ECR, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, OpenSearch); Terraform; CircleCI, Netlify, Playwright; CloudWatch, Datadog, Mezmo; ClickHouse, Dagster.

Skills

Required:Distributed systemsDesigning for product teams / platform as a productSystem execution & orchestration
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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