Software Engineer, (Prior Staff / Principal Experience) at Clay Labs | NY, US | Rezi

Software Engineer, (Prior Staff / Principal Experience) at Clay Labs

Software Engineer, (Prior Staff / Principal Experience)

Clay Labs · NY, US

1 weeks ago

Software Engineer, (Prior Staff / Principal Experience)

Clay Labs · NY, US

11 days ago
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About the Role

Clay is seeking technical leaders to drive business outcomes and impact across the engineering organization. You will leverage your technical expertise to shape strategic direction, execute complex projects, and elevate team effectiveness. Your role will involve shaping architecture, mentoring engineers, and driving process improvements for efficiency and scalability.

Responsibilities

  • Set the technical strategy for your domains.
  • Execute projects that are messy, ambiguous, or technically complex.
  • Influence engineers through teaching, mentoring, design reviews, and code reviews.
  • Serve as a role model for ownership, technical designs, implementation, and company culture.
  • Shape architecture.
  • Mentor engineers.
  • Drive process improvements.

Requirements

  • Have had an outsized impact in previous roles, such as creating leverage for an EPD organization, building foundational systems, launching new products, or bringing deep frontend and UX expertise.
  • Experience working at startups and scale-ups, comfortable building for continually growing scale.
  • Excellent product intuition and ability to think broadly about technical decisions' impact on end-user experience.
  • Empathetic communicator, expressing nuanced ideas clearly for different audiences.
  • Prioritize curiosity over confrontation in disagreements.
  • Familiarity with the current tech stack or ability to learn unfamiliar technologies quickly.

Skills

  • Product Engineering
  • Platform Engineering
  • AI Engineering
  • Security
  • DevEx
  • Typescript
  • React
  • Node.js
  • Python
  • AWS services
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • Github
  • CircleCI
  • Netlify
  • Playwright
  • Cloudwatch
  • Datadog
  • Mezmo
  • Grafana

Experience Level

  • Technical Leader
  • Seniority

Benefits

  • World-class coaches specializing in creativity, management, and more.

About the Company

  • Clay's mission is to help organizations turn any growth idea into reality, viewing growth as a creative practice.
  • Thousands of customers, including Anthropic, Notion, Google, and Ramp, use Clay for data, signals, and AI research.
  • Raised a $100M Series C in 2025 backed by Sequoia, CapitalG, and First Round, crossing $100M in revenue.
  • Announced a second employee tender offer in 9 months at a $5B valuation in 2026.
  • Launched a community equity round for customers, agency partners, and club members.
  • Community includes 11,000+ customers, 150+ integration partners, 125+ agencies, 50+ Clay clubs, and 30k members on Slack.
  • Culture is unique, with team members having diverse interests and professions outside of work.
  • Operating principles include negative maintenance and non-attached action.
  • Featured in NYT, Forbes, First Round Review.
  • Employee testimonials available on Glassdoor.