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ClayClayNew York, NY

Software Engineer, Developer Experience

Build developer tooling, infrastructure, and agent execution systems that improve engineering productivity and safely integrate changes into production. The role requires experience with developer platforms or infrastructure, strong systems ownership, and interest in AI-enabled software development.

130k – 300k/yr
HybridDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Design and build developer experience systems for engineers and coding agents across the software development lifecycle.
  • Build and improve monorepo organization, orchestration, and tooling.
  • Develop CI/CD pipelines, including evaluation and validation of agent-generated changes.
  • Explore cloud development environments.
  • Expose rich codebase context to coding agents, supporting parallel agent execution, automated refactors, migrations, and bug fixing.
  • Set up engineering productivity metrics and dashboards, organize forums, and create other channels to identify and resolve friction points.
  • Build infrastructure that enables Clay to leverage advances in AI across the software lifecycle.
  • Own systems end-to-end and collaborate closely with the engineering team.

Requirements

  • Experience building developer tooling, infrastructure, or internal platforms.
  • Strong interest in developer experience and engineering productivity.
  • Ability to design systems that automate complex workflows.
  • Excitement about how AI will transform the software development lifecycle.
  • Ability to write clean, maintainable code and own systems end-to-end.
  • Curiosity and willingness to experiment; prior experience building AI systems is not required.

Skills

Developer ToolingInfrastructureinternal platformsmonorepoCI/CDcloud development environmentscoding agentsautomated refactoringengineering productivityAI

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