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About the Role
As a Software Engineer on the Performance team, you will identify and solve pressing scaling problems to accommodate increased load. You will develop systems that optimize the throughput and reliability of our core systems, with a focus on solving large-scale systems problems and laying the foundation for performance observability.
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.
Skills
- API latency optimization
- SQL
- Postgres
- Query optimization
- Schema design
- Redis
- ElasticSearch
- Opensearch
- React
- Typescript
- Python
- AWS services
- Aurora
- Elasticache
- Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
- ECS (Fargate)
- Lambda
- OpenSearch
- Terraform
- CircleCI
- Netlify
- Playwright
- Cloudwatch
- Datadog
- Mezmo
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
- Senior
Benefits
- Employees can work for free with world-class coaches who specialize in creativity, management, and more.
About the Company
- Our mission is to help organizations turn any growth idea into reality.
- We see growth as a creative practice, not a formula.
- Finding and reaching your best-fit customers takes unique ideas and constant iteration.
- As AI makes execution faster and tactics easier to copy, creativity is the only lasting advantage.
- We're already helping thousands of customers — including Anthropic, Notion, Google, and Ramp — go to market with unique data, signals, and AI research.
- In 2025, we raised a $100M Series C backed by world-class investors including Sequoia, CapitalG, and First Round — and crossed $100M in revenue.
- In 2026, we announced our second employee tender offer in 9 months at a new $5B valuation.
- We also launched a community equity round, for our customers, agency partners, and club members.
- Our community includes 11,000+ customers, 150+ integration partners, 125+ agencies, 50+ Clay clubs, and 30k members on Slack.
- Our culture is unique inside and outside of work.
- Our team members are also DJs, activists, writers, clowns, marathoners, skydivers, psychedelic therapists, social workers, and more.
- Our operating principles — including negative maintenance and non-attached action — guide our work.
- Read about us in the NYT, Forbes, First Round Review, and more.
- Hear from our employees directly on our Glassdoor page!