
Site Reliability Engineer
Role summary
Clay is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join its growing infrastructure team. This role focuses on building and fine-tuning infrastructure to ensure smooth service operations, with an emphasis on automation and continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will have strong coding skills and be comfortable with a variety of tasks in a startup environment. Responsibilities include architecting and managing scalable infrastructure, implementing CI/CD and IaC best practices, optimizing cloud resources, and leading incident response. The role requires 5+ years of experience, proficiency in programming languages, and familiarity with containerization, orchestration, and monitoring tools.
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 about us in the NYT, Forbes, First Round Review, and more.
Hear from our employees directly on our Glassdoor page!
SRE @ Clay
In this role, you’ll join our growing infrastructure team 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 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.
- Participate in an oncall rotation.
- Work with teams across the company to ensure we achieve the right balance of developer velocity, reliability and performance, and cost efficiency.
What You’ll Bring
- 5+ years of experience
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools
- Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts and tools
- Knowledge of infrastructure automation tools
- Experience with oncall and incident response
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages
- Familiarity with our stack or ability to learn unfamiliar technologies quickly:
- Aurora Postgres RDS, Elasticache Redis, Docker + ECS, Lambda, OpenSearch
- Terraform and Atlantis
- CircleCI, Netlify, Playwright
- Cloudwatch, Datadog, Mezmo
- Typescript, Python
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