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Clay is a creative tool for growth, helping over 100,000 businesses find their GTM alpha through data, experimentation, and automation. The company is experiencing rapid growth, backed by significant funding. As a Backend Software Engineer on the Performance team, you will identify and solve scaling problems, optimize throughput and reliability of core systems, and develop performance observability. This role involves analyzing systems for bottlenecks, creating performance metrics, and advising other engineering teams on scalable designs.

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<h2 class="text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold mt-10 mb-4 border-b pb-2 text-gray-800">About Clay</h2><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed"><a href="https://www.clay.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-800 hover:underline transition-colors duration-200">Clay</a> 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.</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">We believe that modern GTM teams win by finding <em>GTM alpha</em> — a unique competitive edge powered by data, experimentation, and automation. Clay is the platform they use to uncover hidden signals, build custom plays, and launch faster than their competitors. We’re looking for sharp, low-ego people to help teams find their GTM alpha.</p><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed"><em>Why is Clay the best place to work?</em></p><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Customers love the product (100K+ users and growing)</li><li class="leading-relaxed">We’re growing a lot (6x YoY last year, and 10x YoY the two years before that)</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Incredible culture (our customers keep applying to work here)</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Well-resourced - We raised a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/business/dealbook/clay-ai-marketing-fundraise.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-800 hover:underline transition-colors duration-200">$100M Series C</a> in 2025 at a $3.1B valuation and are backed by world-class investors like Capital G (Google), Sequoia and Meritech</li></ul><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">Read more about why people love working at Clay <a href="https://nextplayso.substack.com/p/spotlight-clay" target="<em>blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-800 hover:underline transition-colors duration-200">here</a> and explore our <a href="https://clayrun.notion.site/Wall-of-Love-b243f2b67607438b9fad99341e6b8d47" target="</em>blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="text-blue-600 hover:text-blue-800 hover:underline transition-colors duration-200">wall of love</a> to learn more about the product.</p><h2 class="text-2xl md:text-3xl font-bold mt-10 mb-4 border-b pb-2 text-gray-800">Software Engineering, Backend @ Clay</h2><p class="my-4 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed">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.</p><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">What You'll Do</h3><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Perform comprehensive analyses of our systems to identify and address performance bottlenecks.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Create and monitor meaningful performance metrics for various components of our services</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Advise other teams within engineering on scalable and performant feature design and implementation</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Address critical scalability challenges such as sharding Postgres and Redis, splitting ECS tasks into multiple services to scale independently, and addressing Node event loop blockages.</li></ul><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">What You'll Bring</h3><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">A results-oriented mindset and a bias toward impact</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience in API latency optimization</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience with SQL and related technologies, preferably Postgres</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience in a role with a focus on performance aspects</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience in query optimization and schema design for relational databases and distributed search engines</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Expertise in any of the following: Redis, Postgres, ElasticSearch, or Opensearch</li></ul><h3 class="text-xl md:text-2xl font-bold mt-8 mb-3 text-gray-800">Nice To Haves</h3><ul class="list-disc list-inside my-5 pl-5 space-y-2 text-gray-700"><li class="leading-relaxed">Diversity of perspectives and interests. We hope to build a team that is curious, and open-minded.</li><li class="leading-relaxed">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 systems</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Advanced proficiency in optimizing serverless workloads on AWS</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Experience with our current tech stack:</li><li class="leading-relaxed">React, Typescript, Python</li><li class="leading-relaxed">AWS services: Aurora (Postgres), Elasticache (Redis), Elastic Container Registry (ECR), ECS (Fargate), Lambda, OpenSearch</li><li class="leading-relaxed">IaC: Terraform</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Deployment tools: CircleCI, Netlify, Playwright</li><li class="leading-relaxed">Observability tools: Cloudwatch, Datadog, Mezmo</li></ul>

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