Software Engineer, Developer Experience (AI)

About Clay Our mission is to help organizations turn any growth idea into reality. We see growth as a creative practice, not a formula. Finding and reaching your best-fit customers takes unique ideas and constant iteration. As AI makes execution faster and tactics easier to copy, creativity is the only lasting advantage. We're already helping thousands of customers — including Anthropic, Notion, Google, and Ramp — go to market with unique data, signals, and AI research. In 2025, we raised a $100M Series C backed by world-class investors including Sequoia, CapitalG, and First Round — and crossed $100M in revenue. In 2026, we announced our second employee tender offer in 9 months at a new $5B valuation. We also launched a community equity round, for our customers, agency partners, and club members. Some things to know about us: Our community includes 11,000+ customers, 150+ integration partners, 125+ agencies, 50+ Clay clubs, and 30k members on Slack. Our culture is unique inside and outside of work. Our team members are also DJs, activists, writers, clowns, marathoners, skydivers, psychedelic therapists, social workers, and more. All employees can work for free with world-class coaches who specialize in creativity, management, and more. Our operating principles — including negative maintenance and non-attached action — guide our work. Read more about them here. Read ab [... source excerpt omitted ...] hardest challenges in engineering aren't writing the code itself—they're everything around it: context, environment, validation, testing, and safely integrating changes into real production systems. At Clay, we believe the next evolution of software engineering will come from building systems where coding agents can operate with deep awareness of the codebase, infrastructure, and development lifecycle. That requires a major investment in developer experience and engineering infrastructure. We’re expanding our infrastructure team to build the systems that make this possible — environments where agents can understand the full context of a codebase, execute development tasks end-t [... source excerpt omitted ...] able code and enjoy owning systems end-to-end Why This Role Is Unique Software engineering is changing quickly. AI models can generate code, but making that code useful in real production environments requires deep integration with developer workflows, infrastructure, and codebase context. At Clay, we’re investing heavily in building the systems that make that possible. You’ll be working on infrastructure that sits at the center of how software gets built, and helping define how engineering evolves in the age of AI.