# Software Engineer, Product

**Company:** [Clay](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/clay)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $170k – $300k/yr
**Skills:** SQL, Postgres, Redis, Opensearch, Elasticsearch, AWS, React, TypeScript, Python, Terraform, ECS, AWS Lambda, Datadog, CloudWatch, Playwright
**Posted:** 2026-08-14

> Build and optimize high-throughput, reliable backend systems while identifying performance bottlenecks and improving observability. The role requires expertise in API latency, query optimization, relational schema design, and scalable production infrastructure.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Analyze systems comprehensively to identify and address performance bottlenecks.
- Create and monitor meaningful performance metrics for service components.
- Advise engineering teams on scalable and performant feature design and implementation.
- Address scalability challenges, including sharding Postgres and Redis, splitting ECS tasks into independently scalable services, and resolving Node.js event loop blockages.

## Requirements
- Results-oriented mindset and bias toward impact.
- Experience optimizing API latency.
- Experience with SQL and related technologies, preferably Postgres.
- Experience in a role focused on performance.
- Experience optimizing queries and designing schemas for relational databases and distributed search engines.
- Expertise with Redis, Postgres, Elasticsearch, or OpenSearch.

## Nice to Have
- Experience working with systems and data at scale, such as large-scale data pipelines, event ingestion systems, or large production systems.
- Advanced proficiency optimizing serverless workloads on AWS.
- Experience with React, TypeScript, Python, AWS Aurora (Postgres), ElastiCache (Redis), ECR, ECS (Fargate), Lambda, OpenSearch, Terraform, CircleCI, Netlify, Playwright, CloudWatch, Datadog, or Mezmo.

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