About The Role
Clay is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to build features, design and implement APIs, and improve the performance and reliability of our systems as we scale. You will be working with technologies such as Python, Postgres, RabbitMQ, and Redis, with our server infrastructure running on Kubernetes and other hosted & self-hosted services in Google Cloud. You’ll collaborate closely with a stellar team of passionate, experienced engineers, designers, and others who love building great products.
Responsibilities
- Build, manage, and update shared systems and services, such as databases, queues, service registry, secrets management, and more.
- Identify and deploy cybersecurity measures by performing vulnerability assessment and risk management.
- Provision services with Kubernetes, and look for ways to improve our provisioning setup.
- Monitor and act on service stats for backend services.
About You
- 4+ years of experience building web applications with high-availability services and infrastructure on cloud-hosted systems.
- Comfortable developing in Python (or ability to learn).
- Experience architecting, deploying, and operating asynchronous work queues, high-volume storage systems, and high-throughput systems.
- Experience in tradeoffs and performance optimizations for relational and non-relational databases and caches.
- Ability to work on full-stack projects collaboratively with frontend engineers and designers, with a product mindset and a preference for shipping early and iterating.
- Understanding of security best practices.
- Great communication skills. You should be able to explain your approach and the impact of your work to non-technical stakeholders in a way that is clear to them, and provide technical guidance and mentorship for other engineers.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Google Cloud.
- 3+ years of experience in Python.
- Bringing something new: built a cool tool? Open source contributions? We'd love to hear and learn about them.
What We Offer
- Competitive compensation.
- Excellent health and wellness benefits to help you stay at your best: 100% covered medical, dental, vision for you + 50% for spouse/dependents; One Medical membership; Kindbody Fertility (dependents included); Talkspace membership; Teladoc Virtual Health.
- 8 week paid parental leave.
- Generous paid vacation: Minimum of 20 days of paid time off to use however you like (vacation, national holidays, etc.).
- Education stipend: You’ll have a monthly budget to buy books, courses, and other resources you need to continue learning and developing.
- Company sponsored 401k plan.
- $500 work from home allowance to use on building out a workspace.
- Best in class software/tools: Superhuman, Linear, Notion, etc.
Join us at Clay, where you have the opportunity to work with a team of best-in-class engineers who know how to run across their stack and architect beautiful products. We champion individual ownership, self-starters, and personal growth on and off the job. We’re a tight-knit team that celebrates each other’s wins and improves one another through the losses.
Benefits Extracted with AI
- 401(k)
- 100% covered medical, dental, vision for you + 50% for spouse/dependents
- 8 week paid parental leave
- Generous paid vacation
- Education stipend
- Company sponsored 401k plan
- $500 work from home allowance
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