Platform Engineer

About Clay

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

Read more about why people love working at Clay here and explore our wall of love to learn more about the product.

Platform Engineer @ Clay

In this role youll join our growing infrastructure team in building and fine-tuning our infrastructure to keep our services running smoothly. Were looking for someone whos 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 youll need to be comfortable taking on a variety of roles.

What Youll 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.

• Lead incident response efforts troubleshooting and resolving complex issues in a timely manner.

• Participate in an oncall rotation.

• Work with teams across the company to ensure we achieve the right balance of developer velocity reliability and performance and cost efficiency.

What Youll 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 with oncall and incident response

• 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