← All roles

Software Engineer, Data Products & Platform

Clay· 100 - Engineering
Apply on company site
Hybrid (New York), Hybrid (San Francisco)$170k - $300k + equityFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Data Platform team at Clay builds data products used by customers and the shared systems enabling faster product creation. Focus on turning fragmented data into reliable, searchable, and computable information at scale, with models and open-web data contributing to the map of companies, people, jobs, and their connections.

Responsibilities

  • Decide what the data means. Evaluate sources, resolve conflicts, and model entities and relationships the product can trust.
  • Explore and build new data products. Start from a customer problem, prototype a model, test it against real usage, and take it through to a product experience.
  • Build the shared foundation. Define how data lands, gets modeled and versioned, how releases are evaluated, and how data reaches customers.
  • Own how the data is served. Support interactive search, enrichment lookups, large result sets, and alerts when a tracked company or person changes, with predictable performance.
  • Build with models, not just around them. Decide when modeling beats deterministic pipelines, prove it is right, and scale across millions of records.
  • Make quality a product decision. Measure coverage, correctness, freshness, and whether an answer traces back to a source; build harnesses to determine if a model is good enough to ship.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of hands-on engineering experience building products customers rely on.
  • Product engineering mindset: able to drive and own products end-to-end.
  • Experience leading ambiguous, cross-functional technical work from problem framing through delivery.
  • Empathetic communicator who can tailor messaging for different audiences and foster curiosity over confrontation.
  • Collaborative and craft-focused: write clear, maintainable code and create reusable patterns.
  • Diversity of perspectives valued to build a better team and product.
  • Familiarity with current tech stack or ability to learn quickly. Stack includes React, TypeScript, Python, Node.js, Aurora PostgreSQL, Redis, ECS Fargate, Lambda, OpenSearch; Data platform tools like Python, SQL, Iceberg on S3 with Glue and Athena, SQLMesh, ClickHouse, Airflow, Terraform; Observability with Datadog, CloudWatch.

Skills

Required:8+ years engineering experienceProduct ownership / end-to-end ownershipCross-functional leadershipEmpathetic communicationSQLPythonData modeling
Nice to have:Elasticsearch / OpenSearchEntity resolution / graph data / temporal dataLLM integration in product

Benefits

  • Not explicitly listed in the job description.
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
Clay logo

About Clay

Figma for 3D design

We build software to allow anyone, anywhere to create in 3D together. We believe that collaborating in 3D should feel magical and we're working to make it happen.

ai-agents-and-applicationsbrex-fastest-growing-2025collaborationdesign-toolsproductivitysaaswing-list-2026wing-list-2026-late-stage
Company profileWebsite

More open roles at Clay