Software Engineer, Backend

Clay
San Francisco, NY
Remote
Job Description
We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our Performance team to help solve large-scale systems problems and optimize the throughput and reliability of our core systems.

Requirements

  • 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.

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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