Hybrid Software Engineer, Backend

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About the role

  • Software Engineer optimizing performance for backend systems at Clay. Focused on scalability and observability in response to rapid growth.

Responsibilities

  • Perform comprehensive analyses of our systems to identify and address performance bottlenecks.
  • Create and monitor meaningful performance metrics for various components of our services
  • Advise other teams within engineering on scalable and performant feature design and implementation
  • 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.

Requirements

  • A results-oriented mindset and a bias toward impact
  • Experience in API latency optimization
  • Experience with SQL and related technologies, preferably Postgres
  • Experience in a role with a focus on performance aspects
  • Experience in query optimization and schema design for relational databases and distributed search engines
  • Expertise in any of the following: Redis, Postgres, ElasticSearch, or Opensearch

Benefits

  • Customers love the product (100K+ users and growing)
  • Incredible culture (our customers keep applying to work here)
  • Well-resourced - We raised a $100M Series C in 2025 at a $3.1B valuation and are backed by world-class investors like Capital G (Google), Sequoia and Meritech

Job title

Software Engineer, Backend

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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