Clay
Software Engineer, Data Products & Platform
$170K–$300K
New York +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
- Location
- New York
San Francisco - Experience
- 8+ years of hands-on engineering experience.
About the job
Build customer-facing data products and shared platform systems that turn fragmented, changing data about companies and people into reliable, searchable, and actionable information.
What you'll do
- Evaluate data sources, resolve conflicts, and model entities and relationships.
- Develop data products from customer problem through prototype, testing, and product experience.
- Build shared data foundations and serve search, enrichment, large result sets, and change alerts with predictable performance.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of hands-on engineering experience building products customers rely on.
- Proven experience leading ambiguous, cross-functional technical work from problem framing through delivery.
- Experience building and operating production systems where data quality and reliability matter.
- Comfort with SQL and Python, and ability to reason about data models, distributed jobs, lineage, and failure recovery.
Nice to have
- Experience with entity resolution, graph data, or temporal data.
- Experience putting an LLM in a shipped product’s critical path and proving its correctness.
Pay
$170K – $300K (base salary)
Tools
React, TypeScript, Python, Node.js, Aurora PostgreSQL, Redis, SQL, Iceberg on S3 with Glue and Athena
AI focus
Use models to build and verify data from the open web, decide when model-based approaches outperform deterministic pipelines, evaluate model quality, and make the approach economical at scale.
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