Software Engineer, Data Products & Platform

The role

Data Platform at Clay doesn't sit behind the product. The team builds data products customers use directly, and the shared systems that make each new one faster to build.

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Software Engineer, Data Products & Platform

Clay Labs, New York +1

Posted pay

$170K–$300K

a year

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This base pay is above the median for infrastructure, platform and SRE jobs in the Bay Area with no level in the job title.

Median: $215K a year
Other jobs in the group: 647

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Location: New York +1
Work type: Hybrid
Level: Not given
Experience: 8+ years
Skills in the job text: Python
SQL
TypeScript
React
Terraform
PostgreSQL
Node.js
Airflow
ClickHouse
Datadog
Elasticsearch
Redis
Posted: Aug 14, 2026
Last check: 6 h ago
Job type: Infra, platform & SRE

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Clay Labs

Open tech jobs: 15
With posted pay: 87%
Median posted base: $170K–$300K

About Clay Labs: funding, hiring and pay

Clay Labs

About Clay Labs: funding, hiring and pay

Company facts

Money raised: $269MSum of funding rounds on record
Newest round: Series DSep 9, 2026

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The role

Data Platform at Clay doesn't sit behind the product. The team builds data products customers use directly, and the shared systems that make each new one faster to build.

What you need

You have a proven track record of execution. You have 8+ years of hands-on engineering experience building products customers rely on.
You love being a product manager as well as an engineer. Our product engineers drive and own products from end to end.
You've led ambiguous, cross-functional technical work from problem framing through delivery, creating clarity and scope for others along the way.
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 love to collaborate with others to ship high quality, thoughtful features. You talk to customers, consider multiple approaches, and work with teammates to find the right solution. You care about craft, write clear and maintainable code, and create frameworks and reusable patterns that eliminate classes of problems, not just point fixes.
Having a diversity of perspectives is important to you. You believe that having people with different backgrounds and perspectives creates a better team and a more holistic product.
You’re familiar with our current tech stack or can learn unfamiliar technologies quickly. You don't need experience with every technology listed:
Product stack: React, TypeScript, Python, Node.js, Aurora PostgreSQL, Redis, ECS Fargate, Lambda, OpenSearch
Data platform: Python, SQL, Iceberg on S3 with Glue and Athena, SQLMesh, ClickHouse, Airflow, Terraform
Observability: Datadog, CloudWatch
You've built and operated production systems where data quality and reliability both matter.
You're comfortable in SQL and Python, and can reason about data models, distributed jobs, lineage, and failure recovery.
When a customer gets a wrong answer, you treat it as your bug, wherever it came from.
When datasets disagree or the right quality bar isn't obvious, you measure the problem and improve from evidence. You'd rather bring that evidence to Product or Data Science than argue positions.

Software Engineer, Data Products & Platform

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Software Engineer, Data Products & Platform

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