[Hiring] Software Engineer, Infrastructure @Claylabs

Role Description

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.

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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

Company Description

Clay is a creative tool for growth. Our mission is to help businesses grow — without huge investments in tooling or manual labor. We’re 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.

• Customers love the product (100K+ users and growing)
• We’re 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