About Clay
Clay is a creative tool for growth. Our mission is to help businesses grow - without huge investments in tooling or manual labor. We're already helping over 100,000 people grow their business with Clay. From local pizza shops to enterprises like Anthropic and Notion, our tool lets you instantly translate any idea that you have for growing your company into reality. We're looking for sharp, low-ego people to help us turn every business's creative ideas into a reality. Check out our wall of love to learn more about the product.
Why is Clay the best place to work in New York?
- Customers love the product (100K users and growing)
- We're growing a lot (10x YoY for the past two years)
- Incredible culture (our customers keep applying to work here)
- In-person work (beautiful office space in Flatiron)
- Well-resourced (raised a Series B in June 2024 from investors like Sequoia and Meritech)
Software Engineering, Backend @ Clay
Given our rapid growth over the past couple of years, we often have to solve pressing scaling problems to accommodate the increased load. As a Software Engineer on the Performance team, you'll be responsible for identifying these problems and then developing systems that optimize the throughput and reliability of our core systems. Strong candidates here will have a track record of solving large-scale systems problems and laying the foundation for performance observability.
What You'll Do
Perform comprehensive analyses of our systems to identify and address performance bottlenecks.Create and monitor meaningful performance metrics for various components of our servicesAdvise other teams within engineering on scalable and performant feature design and implementationAddress critical scalability challenges such as sharding Postgres and Redis, splitting ECS tasks into multiple services to scale independently, and addressing Node event loop blockages.What You'll Bring
A results-oriented mindset and a bias toward impactExperience in API latency optimizationExperience with SQL and related technologies, preferably PostgresExperience in a role with a focus on performance aspectsExperience in query optimization and schema design for relational databases and distributed search enginesExpertise in any of the following : Redis, Postgres, ElasticSearch, or OpensearchNice To Haves
Diversity of perspectives and interests. We hope to build a team that is curious, and open-minded.Experience working with systems & data at scale. May be building large-scale high-performance data pipelines, event ingestion systems, or generally working with larger production systemsAdvanced proficiency in optimizing serverless workloads on AWSExperience with our current tech stack :React, Typescript, Python
AWS services : Aurora (Postgres), Elasticache (Redis), Elastic Container Registry (ECR), ECS (Fargate), Lambda, OpenSearchIaC : TerraformDeployment tools : CircleCI, Netlify, PlaywrightObservability tools : Cloudwatch, Datadog, MezmoLife @ Clay
Based out of a central office on 19th Street in Manhattan's Flatiron District. We love the energy of in-person collaboration while also offering the flexibility to work from home when needed.
Competitive salary and role trajectory : Roles, responsibilities, and comp grow as we doHealth insurance : Fully funded, high quality health, dental & vision coverage (including 80-100% therapy coverage)Visa sponsorship : We get it - it's an arduous process, but we're not scared of itPaid time off : We expect team members to take at least 3 weeks fully-disconnected per year, with a flexible vacation policy beyond thatFree lunch : Lunch is provided in office every dayParental leave & fertility support : IVF fertility benefits, egg freezing, and 4 months of paid parental leaveLearn more about Clay and what it's like to work with us right here!
