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
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