Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About Clay

Clay is a creative tool for growth. Our mission is to help businesses grow  — without huge investments in tooling or manual labor. We’re already helping over 100,000 people grow their business with Clay. From local pizza shops to enterprises like Anthropic and Notion, our tool lets you instantly translate any idea that you have for growing your company into reality. We’re looking for sharp, low-ego people to help us turn every business’s creative ideas into a reality.  Check out our wall of love to learn more about the product.

Why is Clay the best place to work in New York?

• Customers love the product (100K+ users and growing)

• We’re growing a lot (10x YoY for the past two years) 

• Incredible culture (our customers keep applying to work here)

• In-person work (beautiful office space in Flatiron)

• Well-resourced (raised a Series B in June 2024 from investors like Sequoia and Meritech)

Site Reliability @ Clay

In this role, you’ll take the lead in building and fine-tuning our infrastructure to keep our services running smoothly. We’re looking for someone who’s excited about automation and continuous improvement. While your main focus will be on infrastructure, coding skills are a must. As a growing startup, we all jump in where needed, so you’ll need to be comfortable taking on a variety of roles.

What You’ll Do

• Architect, design, implement and manage robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure solutions.

• Develop, maintain, and enforce best practices for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and automation.

• Oversee the management and optimization of cloud infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, and cost-efficiency.

• Implement and manage containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker.

• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to maintain system health and quickly resolve issues.

• Lead incident response efforts, troubleshooting and resolving complex issues in a timely manner.

What You’ll Bring

• 4+ years of experience

• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools 

• Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools 

• Knowledge of infrastructure automation tools

• Familiarity with our stack

  • Aurora Postgres RDS, Elasticache Redis, Docker + ECR + ECS Fargate, Lambda, OpenSearch

  • Terraform

  • CircleCI, Netlify, Playwright

  • Cloudwatch, Datadog, Mezmo

Life @ Clay 

Based out of a central office on 19th Street in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. We love the energy of in-person collaboration while also offering the flexibility to work from home when needed.

• Competitive salary and role trajectory: Roles, responsibilities, and comp grow as we do

• Health insurance: Fully funded, high quality health, dental & vision coverage (including 80-100% therapy coverage)

• Visa sponsorship: We get it - it’s an arduous process, but we’re not scared of it

• Paid time off: We expect team members to take at least 3 weeks fully-disconnected per year, with a flexible vacation policy beyond that

• Free lunch: Lunch is provided in office every day

• Parental leave & fertility support: IVF fertility benefits, egg freezing, and 4 months of paid parental leave

Learn more about Clay and what it’s like to work with us right here!