Clay
Software Engineer (Prior Staff / Principal Experience)
$240K–$300K
New York +1 · Hybrid · Principal · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Location
- New York
San Francisco
About the job
Provides technical leadership across engineering by setting domain strategy, delivering complex projects, shaping architecture, and raising team effectiveness.
What you'll do
- Set technical strategy and drive complex, ambiguous projects across engineering domains.
- Shape architecture and improve engineering processes, efficiency, and scalability.
- Mentor engineers through teaching and design, proposal, and code reviews.
What they ask for
- Demonstrated broad influence and deep impact in previous roles.
- Experience at startups and scale-ups, with comfort building for increasing scale.
- Strong product intuition and ability to assess technical decisions’ effects on user experience.
- Empathetic communication and familiarity with the listed tech stack or ability to learn unfamiliar technologies quickly.
Pay
$240K – $300K (base salary)
Tools
Typescript, React, Node.js, Python, Aurora (Postgres), Elasticache (Redis), Terraform, Datadog
AI focus
The role may involve AI engineering; the posting describes building agents that help customers grow their companies.
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