27 days ago
Base Salary
$170k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Improve scale, reliability, performance, database contention, memory pressure, throughput, and cost efficiency as load grows.
- Build shared platform primitives, contracts, and extension points and migrate existing consumers onto them.
- Own how work is defined, scheduled, retried, observed, and executed across the product.
- Create instrumentation that makes long-running jobs and failures traceable for customers and engineers.
- Solve foundational problems at system seams involving input mapping, integrations, data access, credit accounting, and usage accounting.
- Set technical direction and raise engineering standards through design reviews, code reviews, and durable system improvements.
Requirements
- 8+ years of hands-on engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale.
- Demonstrated expertise in scale, reliability, and performance or in building internal-facing platforms used by engineers across a company.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, queuing, backpressure, failure recovery, and underlying data models.
- Ability to design platforms as products, own technical direction, make product judgment calls, communicate nuanced ideas clearly, and collaborate effectively.
- Familiarity with the listed technology stack or the ability to learn unfamiliar technologies quickly.
- Preferred experience with workflow engines, orchestration systems, durable execution frameworks, company-wide platform migrations, multi-tenant systems, production LLM or agent execution paths, search infrastructure, large result sets, or high-volume ingestion.
Benefits
- Employees can work for free with world-class coaches specializing in creativity, management, and other areas.
- The engineering organization works across NYC and San Francisco with async planning in Slack, weekly cross-functional meetings, two-week sprints, and Linear as the source of truth.
- The company offers a distinctive culture and community-oriented environment.
Tech Stack
About Clay Labs
Clay Labs builds a go-to-market data and automation platform that lets revenue teams discover prospects, enrich records from many providers, and personalize multichannel outreach. Delivered as a SaaS product with APIs and a data marketplace, it serves sales, marketing, and growth teams at startups and enterprises. The privately held company is headquartered in New York and is backed by investors including Sequoia Capital and CapitalG.