Software Engineer, Backend

Software Engineering, Backend @ ClayGiven our rapid growth over the past couple of years, we often have to solve pressing scaling problems to accommodate the increased load. As a Software Engineer on the Performance team, you'll be responsible for identifying these problems and then developing systems that optimize the throughput and reliability of our core systems. Strong candidates here will have a track record of solving large-scale systems problems and laying the foundation for performance observability.What You'll DoPerform comprehensive analyses of our systems to identify and address performance bottlenecks.Create and monitor meaningful performance metrics for various components of our servicesAdvise other teams within engineering on scalable and performant feature design and implementationAddress critical scalability challenges such as sharding Postgres and Redis, splitting ECS tasks into multiple services to scale independently, and addressing Node event loop blockages.What You'll BringA results-oriented mindset and a bias toward impactExperience in API latency optimizationExperience with SQL and related technologies, preferably PostgresExperience in a role with a focus on performance aspectsExperience in query optimization and schema design for relational databases and distributed search enginesExpertise in any of the following: Redis, Postgres, ElasticSearch, or OpensearchNice To HavesDiversity of perspectives and interests. We hope to build a team that is curious, and open-minded.Experience working with systems & data at scale. May be building large-scale high-performance data pipelines, event ingestion systems, or generally working with larger production systemsAdvanced proficiency in optimizing serverless workloads on AWSExperience with our current tech stack:React, Typescript, PythonAWS services: Aurora (Postgres), Elasticache (Redis), Elastic Container Registry (ECR), ECS (Fargate), Lambda, OpenSearchIaC: TerraformDeployment tools: CircleCI, Netlify, PlaywrightObservability tools: Cloudwatch, Datadog, Mezmo