About Clay
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 Cbacked 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.
Some things to know about us:
- 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.
- All employees can work for free with world-class coaches who specialize in creativity, management, and more.
- Our operating principles — including negative maintenance and non-attached action — guide our work. Read more about them here.
- Read about us in the NYT, Forbes, First Round Review, and more.
Hear from our employees directly on our Glassdoor page!
Software Engineer, Infrastructure
In this role, you’ll join our growing infrastructure team in building and fine-tuning our infrastructure to keep our services running smoothly. We’re looking for someone who’s excited about automation and continuous improvement. While your main focus will be on infrastructure, coding skills are a must. As a growing startup, we all jump in where needed, so you’ll need to be comfortable taking on a variety of roles.
What You’ll Do
- Architect, design, implement, and manage robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure solutions.
- Develop, maintain, and enforce best practices for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and automation.
- Oversee the management and optimization of cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, and cost-efficiency.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to maintain system health and quickly resolve issues.
- Enhance developer experience across teams, including the forward-looking strategy and incorporation of the latest AI tooling, coding agents, and advanced automation
- Design, implement, and maintain internal tooling and automation
- Work with teams across the company to ensure we achieve the right balance of developer velocity, reliability and performance, and cost efficiency.
What You’ll Bring
5+ years of experience
Experience with containerization and orchestration tools
Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools
Knowledge of infrastructure automation tools
Experience working cross-team to improve developer efficiency
Proficiency in one or more programming languages
Familiarity with our stack or ability to learn unfamiliar technologies quickly:
- Aurora Postgres RDS, Elasticache Redis, Docker + ECS, Lambda, OpenSearch
- Terraform and Atlantis
- CircleCI, Netlify, Playwright
- Cloudwatch, Datadog, Mezmo
- Typescript, Python