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Read more about them here.\n\nRead about us in the NYT, Forbes, First Round Review, and more.\n\nHear from our employees directly on our Glassdoor page!\nThe Role\nClay’s engineering team and codebase are growing quickly, and require continued investment in tooling and infrastructure to operate effectively.\nIn 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.\nAt 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.\nThat requires a major investment in developer experience and engineering infrastructure.\nWe’re expanding our infrastructure team to build the systems that make this possible - environments where agents can understand the 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