Software Engineer, Data Products & Platform

Job Description

Company: Clay
Location: New York City Metropolitan Area
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

Clay AI is building the engine for company creation, helping businesses grow through personalized campaigns and AI-driven actions. The Data Platform team builds data products customers use directly, focusing on turning fragmented, conflicting data into reliable information at scale.

What You’ll Do / Key Responsibilities

• Decide what the data means, evaluating sources and resolving conflicts to model entities and relationships.
• Build the shared foundation, defining how data lands, gets modeled and versioned, and reaches customers.
• Own how the data is served, supporting interactive search, enrichment lookups, and alerts with predictable performance.
• Make quality a product decision, measuring coverage, correctness, and freshness against real customer use.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Proven track record of execution with 8+ years of hands-on engineering experience building customer-reliant products.
• Comfortable in SQL and Python, capable of reasoning about data models, distributed jobs, lineage, and failure recovery.
• Experience building and operating production systems where data quality and reliability are critical.
• Ability to lead ambiguous, cross-functional technical work from problem framing through delivery.

Preferred / Bonus Qualifications (if applicable)

• Experience with entity resolution, graph data, or temporal data.
• Experience putting an LLM in the critical path of a shipped product.
• Experience with search infrastructure or data-intensive product systems.

Benefits & Perks (if applicable)

• Access to world-class coaches specializing in creativity, management, and more.
• Participation in a unique culture including DJs, activists, and marathoners.

[Clay is committed to diversity and believes having people with different backgrounds creates a better, more holistic product.]