Clay
Software Engineer, Backend (Infrastructure & Platform)
$170K–$300K
New York · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of hands-on experience building and operating production systems at scale.
About the job
Build and operate shared infrastructure and platform systems that execute, schedule, store, and serve work reliably and predictably across Clay products.
What you'll do
- Improve system scale, reliability, and performance; establish measurable targets.
- Build shared platform primitives and evolve execution, orchestration, and observability.
- Set technical direction and raise engineering standards through design and code reviews.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of hands-on experience building and operating production systems at scale.
- Deep experience in at least one area: scale, reliability, and performance, or platform and frameworks.
- Ability to reason about distributed systems, concurrency, queuing, backpressure, failure recovery, and underlying data models.
- Clear technical communication, including design docs and RFCs.
Nice to have
- Experience with workflow engines, orchestration systems, or durable execution frameworks.
- Experience with multi-tenant systems, production LLM or agent execution, platform migrations, or data-intensive systems.
Pay
$170K – $300K (base salary)
Tools
React, TypeScript, Python, Node.js, AWS, Terraform, CircleCI, ClickHouse
AI focus
Nice to have: running LLM calls or agent loops inside a production execution path.
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