Software Engineer, Developer Experience (AI)

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. 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.

Responsibilities

Help design and build the developer experience that powers the next generation of software engineering at Clay; Build systems that make both engineers and coding agents dramatically more effective across the full development lifecycle; 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 in 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

Requirements

Strong engineers who enjoy building systems that improve how software gets built; 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

Benefits

All employees can work for free with world-class coaches who specialize in creativity, management, and more