Clay · 1 month ago
Software Engineer, Backend
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid Level
$130K/yr - $300K/yrClay is a company focused on helping organizations turn growth ideas into reality through creativity and unique data solutions. As a Software Engineer on the Performance team, you will identify scaling problems and develop systems to optimize the performance and reliability of core systems.
Computer Software
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
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
Diversity of perspectives and interests. We hope to build a team that is curious, and open-minded
Experience working with systems & data at scale. May be building large-scale high-performance data pipelines, event ingestion systems, or generally working with larger production systems
Advanced proficiency in optimizing serverless workloads on AWS
Experience with our current tech stack: React, Typescript, Python
AWS services: Aurora (Postgres), Elasticache (Redis), Elastic Container Registry (ECR), ECS (Fargate), Lambda, OpenSearch
IaC: Terraform
Deployment tools: CircleCI, Netlify, Playwright
Observability tools: Cloudwatch, Datadog, Mezmo
Company
Clay
✨ The creative tool for growth | Go to market with unique data - and the ability to act on it
Founded in 2014
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Kareem Amin
Co-Founder @ Clay
Nicolae Rusan
Co-Founder
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