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title: 'Software Engineer, Developer Experience (AI) at Clay Labs'
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# Software Engineer, Developer Experience (AI) at Clay Labs

- **Company:** [Clay Labs](https://feeny.ai/companies/clay-labs)
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $170k–$300k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-03-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/claylabs/9b008b26-189b-45cf-83d8-fee117d32874/application

**Skills:** Developer Tooling, Infrastructure, CI/CD, Cloud Development, Monorepo Organization, Code Refactoring, Dashboarding, AI Systems Integration, Automated Workflow Design

> Design and build systems that improve software engineering productivity by focusing on developer experience, tooling, and infrastructure. The role involves creating environments for coding agents to operate safely and efficiently, including CI/CD pipelines, cloud environments, and contextual codebase integration.

## Job description

## About Clay

AI is unleashing the biggest wave of company creation in history. Clay's mission is to be the engine those companies use to grow to their full potential. Clay predicts the next best action for your business and then helps you take it. We started by aggregating the best data for B2B companies. Then, we built the infrastructure to run any personalized campaign on top of it, including emails, ads, landing pages, and workflows that make reps more productive. Now, we're building agents that can help grow your company for you. We're already helping thousands of customers — including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Visa — go to market with unique data, signals, and AI research. In 2026, we raised a [$115M Series D](https://www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2026%2F09%2F09%2Fbusiness%2Fdealbook%2Fclay-ai-fundraising.html%3Fsmid%3Durl-share%26unlocked_article_code%3D1._1A.E5rN.MeYsbgEsUKbB&urlhash=XS4q&mt=4bpSf4a8omAKuAHqAqZx6C11QpbLK_QwIhSV7gSf4Wf9aywPF_KBSiX9IkWE1AhXBEjPH8mK6fAEN7CMFlpvo0lPAtKRjs-dhgzYqHiVKUMCRtw0jScFgxWCRRfYs4HCX0YL9L6PCQz-edBLinvRdU_TaVUL2dA3&isSdui=true&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_feed%3BoQmIsufoRJm7X2HC5Rqd%2Fw%3D%3D) at $7.1B Valuation led by Wellington — and are on track to cross $200M in revenue this quarter. We also launched a $1M Scholarship fund for GTME Education. Some things to know about us:

- Our [community](http://community.clay.com) includes 17,000+ customers, 200+ integration partners, 125+ agencies, 50+ [Clay clubs](https://luma.com/claylive), and 30k members on Slack.
- Our [culture](https://nextplayso.substack.com/p/spotlight-clay) 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 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](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/61477f2c24a826836f969afe/685d83a71452245cc1129791_4d770abfd83e276ec15315a2e06945bd_Clay2025_OperatingPrinciples.pdf).
- Read about us in the [NYT](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/business/dealbook/clay-ai-marketing-fundraise.html), [Forbes](http://google.com/search?q=forbes+clay&rlz=1C5OZZY_enUS1155US1155&oq=forbes+clay&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQABiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIHCAYQABiABDIHCAcQABiABDIHCAgQABiABDIHCAkQABiABNIBBzkzM2owajSoAgOwAgHxBVAe8UAxJx_p&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8), [First Round Review](https://review.firstround.com/podcast/inside-clays-unconventional-path-to-1-25b/), [and more](https://www.clay.com/press).

Hear from our employees directly on our [Glassdoor](https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Clay-EI_IE9850794.11,15.htm) page!

## The Role

Clay’s engineering team and codebase are growing quickly, and require continued investment in tooling and infrastructure to operate effectively. In particular, as coding agents continue to advance, the 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-to-end, and safely integrate their work into production. While coding agents will be an important area to focus on, this role spans developer tooling, infrastructure, and agent execution systems, and the systems you build will shape how software gets built at Clay.

## What You’ll Work On

You’ll help design and build the developer experience that powers the next generation of software engineering at Clay. This includes systems that make both engineers and coding agents dramatically more effective across the full development lifecycle. Areas you might work on include:

- Monorepo organization, orchestration, and tooling
- CI/CD pipelines, including evaluation and validation of agent-generated changes
- Cloud dev environment exploration
- Expose rich codebase context to coding agents, enabling multiple agents running and parallel and supporting automated refactors, migrations, and bug fixing
- Setup metrics and dashboards, organize forums - and any other venue to keep a pulse on how the engineering team is doing and how they can further be assisted

Our goal is to build the infrastructure harness that allows Clay to fully leverage the latest AI Advancements.

What Success Looks Like Success in this role means:

- Clay engineers can move faster with less friction
- Coding agents can operate with deep context and make meaningful changes safely
- Our development environment adapts quickly as new AI capabilities emerge
- Engineering productivity compounds as more of the software lifecycle becomes automated
- Developing a relationship with the engineering team and creating a collaborative environment to resolve friction points

## What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for strong engineers who enjoy building systems that improve how software gets built. You might be a good fit if you:

- Have experience building developer tooling, infrastructure, or internal platforms
- Care deeply about developer experience and engineering productivity, including removing obstacles to productivity
- Enjoy designing systems that automate complex workflows
- Are excited about how AI will transform the software development lifecycle
- Write clean, maintainable 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.

## About Clay Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Clay is a creative go-to-market (GTM) platform that helps teams build automated systems to grow revenue by combining data enrichment, AI agents, and workflow orchestration.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C expansion at $3.1B valuation, tender offer at $5B)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed in available sources

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Go-to-market (GTM) software / Sales & Marketing technology
- **Target customers**: B2B GTM teams of all sizes – from solo operators to enterprise sales, marketing, and revenue teams
- **Mission**: Help people grow businesses by providing the best data foundation possible to reach their best-fit customers

## Products & Services
- **Data Marketplace**: Access to 200+ data and AI vendors in one contract – enabling teams to buy, enrich, and combine first-party, intent, and third-party data.
- **Agents**: Create AI agents that mimic top sales representatives to automate research, prep, and follow-ups.
- **Orchestration**: Build multi-step workflows that connect GTM tools (CRM, email, ads) and trigger actions based on real-time signals.
- **Automated Outbound**: Programmatically generate 1:1 messaging, launch new plays in days, and scale outbound campaigns.
- **Lead Scoring & Routing**: Enrich, score, and route every lead to the right rep in minutes.
- **Pre‑Call Prep Agent**: Researches prospect bios, earnings reports, and company changes to fully automate pre‑call prep.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $5B (via employee tender offer, January 2026); previous Series C at $3.1B (2025)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of $35.5M; total funding $202M
- **Notable Investors**: Sequoia Capital, CapitalG, First Round Capital, Meritech Capital Partners
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount of 792 employees (+74.6% YoY)
  - 500,000+ GTM teams trust Clay
  - Named #1 mid-stage company on the ENT30 list
  - Only GTM company on Forbes’ 2025 AI 50 List
  - Customer case studies: Anthropic 3× enrichment rate, OpenAI automated pre‑call prep, Intercom grew outbound pipeline 140%, Vanta cut follow‑up time from 3 days to <1, Mistral AI cut TAM mapping from 2 months to 10 days
  - Active job postings grew 763% YoY; operates in 47 countries

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unique combination of data marketplace + AI agents + workflow automation** in a single platform – reduces the need for multiple tools and manual coordination.
- “A single person can run growth campaigns that previously required coordinating the entire GTM team.”
- **Massive data marketplace** (200+ vendors) with one contract simplifies data procurement.
- **Network effects** – 500,000+ users contribute to a growing community of GTM engineers.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepen AI capabilities in agentic workflows for GTM
- Expand the data marketplace with more vendors and intent signals
- Continue scaling globally (already in 47 countries) and hiring aggressively (164 open roles)
- Build out ecosystem partnerships and enable customers to become “GTM engineers”

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Kindness, creativity, “quiet ego”, and a focus on helping each other grow. Values like “Make it work, then make it great” and “Negative maintenance” (improve a little every day).
- **Work model**: Flexible in‑person culture – office in Chelsea, NYC, with daily team lunches and DJ Fridays. Hybrid flexibility offered; remote roles available.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary, fully funded health/dental/vision, 4 months paid parental leave, IVF and egg freezing benefits, flexible PTO, yearly company retreats, visa sponsorship.
- **Engineering**: Emphasis on craft, attention to detail, and deep enjoyment of the building process. Engineers work on AI, data infrastructure, and scalable systems.
- **Interview process**: Typically 3–5 interviews (behavioral + technical) plus a founders interview; practical exercises and reference checks.

## Sources
1. [Clay.com – Careers](https://www.clay.com/careers)
2. [Clay.com – About](https://www.clay.com/about)
3. [Clay.com – Main Site](https://www.clay.com/)
4. [LinkedIn – Clay (Clay Labs Inc.)](https://www.linkedin.com/company/grow-with-clay)

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