Platform Engineer — Scalable Backend Infrastructure

Doist; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Clay is seeking a Software Engineer to work on infrastructure and platform systems that power our products at scale. You will influence foundational decisions that enable product teams to ship reliably and efficiently, across NYC and SF.

You'll own execution and orchestration, improve observability, and define extension points that unify shared platforms. This role requires deep systems thinking and strong collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale.
• Experience with distributed systems, concurrency, and failure recovery.
• Strong communication and collaboration across product teams.

Responsibilities

• Scale, reliability, and performance improvements for shared infrastructure.
• Define primitives and extension points for product teams.
• Own execution and orchestration across the product.
• Improve system observability and debuggability at scale.

Skills

Distributed systems

Concurrency

Platform engineering

Collaborative leadership

Tools

React

Typescript

Python

Node.js

AWS

Terraform

CircleCI

Netlify

Playwright

CloudWatch

Datadog

Mezzo

Job description

Clay is seeking a Software Engineer to work on infrastructure and platform systems that power our products at scale. You will influence foundational decisions that enable product teams to ship reliably and efficiently, across NYC and SF.

You'll own execution and orchestration, improve observability, and define extension points that unify shared platforms. This role requires deep systems thinking and strong collaboration with cross-functional teams.