clay.global
Staff Software Engineer
Base pay range
$175,000.00/yr - $250,000.00/yr About Clay
Clay is a creative tool for growth. Our mission is to help businesses grow without huge investments in tooling or manual labor. Were already helping over 100,000 people grow their business with Clay. From local pizza shops to enterprises like Anthropic and Notion, our tool lets you instantly translate any idea that you have for growing your company into reality. We believe that modern GTM teams win by finding GTM alpha a unique competitive edge powered by data, experimentation, and automation. Clay is the platform they use to uncover hidden signals, build custom plays, and launch faster than their competitors. Were looking for sharp, low-ego people to help teams find their GTM alpha. Why is Clay the best place to work? Customers love the product (100K+ users and growing) Were growing a lot (6x YoY last year, and 10x YoY the two years before that) 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
Software Engineering, Staff @ Clay
As a Staff Engineer, youll play a key role in driving impact across the engineering organization. Youll leverage your technical expertise to shape strategic direction, execute ambitious and complex projects, and elevate the overall effectiveness of the team. Your impact will go beyond individual contributions youll shape architecture, mentor engineers, and drive process improvements to enhance efficiency, scalability, and the overall effectiveness of the engineering organization. Therell be no shortage of fun problems to explore and technical challenges to solve. What You'll Do
Big picture thinking. Youll take a step back and see beyond the immediate details, the current roadmap, and the individual teams. Youll set technical strategy for the domains that you cover. Executing. The projects you take on may be messier, more ambiguous, or more technically complex. You can bust through obstacles that block others, but youll also often have to rely on larger groups of people and/or the trust and influence you have within the organization to succeed and scale your impact. Leveling up the team. Youll influence engineers at the company via teaching, mentoring, reviewing designs and proposals, and reviewing code. Youll also serve as a role model for the team around ownership, technical designs & implementation, and participation in the company culture.
What You'll Bring
You have 7+ years of overall software development experience. Youve worked at startups and scale-ups, and are comfortable building for a continually growing level of scale. You have experience in infrastructure. Youre comfortable spinning up new cloud resources, from microservices to queues, caches, and DB clusters, youre familiar with best practices when it comes to assembling the components of your system designs. You have experience with observability tooling. Youve used logging, profilers, distributed tracing, etc. to track down tricky bugs or performance issues in production systems. You have strong product intuition. You have the ability to think broadly and cross-functionally around how your technical decisions will impact the end-user product experience both in terms of how existing features work as well as what new functionality could be unlocked. You are an empathetic communicator. You express nuanced ideas clearly at different levels of abstraction for different audiences. In disagreements, you prioritize curiosity over confrontation, making sure everyone feels heard and understood. You avoid tying your ego to the systems youve built or are trying to build. Youre familiar with our current tech stack or can learn unfamiliar technologies quickly. Our current tech stack is: Typescript, React, Node.js, Python AWS services: Aurora (Postgres), Elasticache (Redis), Docker + Elastic Container Registry (ECR), ECS (Fargate), Lambda, OpenSearch IaC: Terraform Deployment tools: Github, CircleCI, Netlify, Playwright Observability tools: Cloudwatch, Datadog, Mezmo, Grafana
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Software Development
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$175,000.00/yr - $250,000.00/yr About Clay
Clay is a creative tool for growth. Our mission is to help businesses grow without huge investments in tooling or manual labor. Were already helping over 100,000 people grow their business with Clay. From local pizza shops to enterprises like Anthropic and Notion, our tool lets you instantly translate any idea that you have for growing your company into reality. We believe that modern GTM teams win by finding GTM alpha a unique competitive edge powered by data, experimentation, and automation. Clay is the platform they use to uncover hidden signals, build custom plays, and launch faster than their competitors. Were looking for sharp, low-ego people to help teams find their GTM alpha. Why is Clay the best place to work? Customers love the product (100K+ users and growing) Were growing a lot (6x YoY last year, and 10x YoY the two years before that) 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
Software Engineering, Staff @ Clay
As a Staff Engineer, youll play a key role in driving impact across the engineering organization. Youll leverage your technical expertise to shape strategic direction, execute ambitious and complex projects, and elevate the overall effectiveness of the team. Your impact will go beyond individual contributions youll shape architecture, mentor engineers, and drive process improvements to enhance efficiency, scalability, and the overall effectiveness of the engineering organization. Therell be no shortage of fun problems to explore and technical challenges to solve. What You'll Do
Big picture thinking. Youll take a step back and see beyond the immediate details, the current roadmap, and the individual teams. Youll set technical strategy for the domains that you cover. Executing. The projects you take on may be messier, more ambiguous, or more technically complex. You can bust through obstacles that block others, but youll also often have to rely on larger groups of people and/or the trust and influence you have within the organization to succeed and scale your impact. Leveling up the team. Youll influence engineers at the company via teaching, mentoring, reviewing designs and proposals, and reviewing code. Youll also serve as a role model for the team around ownership, technical designs & implementation, and participation in the company culture.
What You'll Bring
You have 7+ years of overall software development experience. Youve worked at startups and scale-ups, and are comfortable building for a continually growing level of scale. You have experience in infrastructure. Youre comfortable spinning up new cloud resources, from microservices to queues, caches, and DB clusters, youre familiar with best practices when it comes to assembling the components of your system designs. You have experience with observability tooling. Youve used logging, profilers, distributed tracing, etc. to track down tricky bugs or performance issues in production systems. You have strong product intuition. You have the ability to think broadly and cross-functionally around how your technical decisions will impact the end-user product experience both in terms of how existing features work as well as what new functionality could be unlocked. You are an empathetic communicator. You express nuanced ideas clearly at different levels of abstraction for different audiences. In disagreements, you prioritize curiosity over confrontation, making sure everyone feels heard and understood. You avoid tying your ego to the systems youve built or are trying to build. Youre familiar with our current tech stack or can learn unfamiliar technologies quickly. Our current tech stack is: Typescript, React, Node.js, Python AWS services: Aurora (Postgres), Elasticache (Redis), Docker + Elastic Container Registry (ECR), ECS (Fargate), Lambda, OpenSearch IaC: Terraform Deployment tools: Github, CircleCI, Netlify, Playwright Observability tools: Cloudwatch, Datadog, Mezmo, Grafana
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Software Development
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