GTM Engineer - Systems and Infrastructure

About the company

Clay provides an AI-powered sales and marketing automation platform that automates customer research, personalized outreach, and orchestration of lead generation and CRM workflows for customer-facing teams.

About this role

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 https://clayrun.notion.site/Wall-of-Love-b243f2b67607438b9fad99341e6b8d47 — including Anthropic, Notion, Google, and Ramp — go to market with unique data, signals, and AI research. In 2025, we raised a $100M Series C https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/business/dealbook/clay-ai-marketing-fundraise.htmlbacked by world-class investors including Sequoia, CapitalG, and First Round — and crossed $100M in revenue. In 2026, we announced our second employee tender offer https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/business/dealbook/clay-start-up-tender-offers.html in 9 months at a new $5B valuation. We also launched a community equity round https://www.clay.com/blog/community-equity-offering, for our customers, agency partners, and club members. Some things to know about us: - Our community http://community.clay.com includes 11,000+ customers, 150+ integration partners, 125+ agencies, 50+ Clay clubs https://luma.com/claylive, and 30k members on Slack. - Our culture https://nextplayso.substack.com/p/spotlight-clay 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 https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/61477f2c24a826836f969afe/685d83a71452245cc1129791_4d770abfd83e276ec15315a2e06945bd_Clay2025_OperatingPrinciples.pdf. - Read about us in the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/business/dealbook/clay-ai-marketing-fundraise.html, Forbes http://google.com/search?q=forbes+clay&rlz=1C5OZZY_enUS1155US1155&oq=forbes+clay&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQABiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQABiABDIHCAQQABiABDIHCAUQABiABDIHCAYQABiABDIHCAcQABiABDIHCAgQABiABDIHCAkQABiABNIBBzkzM2owajSoAgOwAgHxBVAe8UAxJx_p&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8, First Round Review https://review.firstround.com/podcast/inside-clays-unconventional-path-to-1-25b/, and more https://www.clay.com/press. Hear from our employees directly on our Glassdoor https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Clay-EI_IE9850794.11,15.htm page! We're looking for someone to build and maintain our core GTM infrastructure including Salesforce and our Clay instance. As we scale, the robustness and reliability of these systems will be a core success metric for the company. You'll be the person who builds within Salesforce and Clay: owning the objects, functions, tables, flows, automations, and integrations that keep our revenue motion running cleanly and give every team what they need to execute. GTM Engineering for Systems and Infrastructure is an emerging discipline that blends traditional software operations principles, SFDC development and new principles. We're looking for someone excited to pioneer this new discipline using Clay. What You'll Do - Design and build Salesforce objects, flows, validation rules, reports, and dashboards that support GTM teams across the company - Build and maintain CPQ and billing workflows within Salesforce, ensuring clean handoffs between sales, finance, and post-sale teams - Serve as the primary Salesforce builder for cross-functional teams: Sales, Tech Partnerships, CX, Finance, and more, translating process needs into technical solutions - Push the limits of Clay and extend our platform into new use cases, feed our product team innovative ideas, dogfood new features and ; act as a practitioner evangelist of Clay infrastructure and GTM Engineering - Engineer our internal Clay instance for maximal scale and reliability -- role model this development to the market as you lead the development of this practice - Design protocols, observability and debugging principles to ensure our systems maintain high uptime - Partner deeply with GTM leaders and frontline teams to understand how our revenue motion works today and where it breaks - Identify opportunities to automate and redesign workflows using better systems design and AI - Design for data quality — build validation, governance, and structure that the rest of the GTM stack can rely on - Connect Salesforce to adjacent systems through APIs, webhooks, and automation layers so information moves cleanly across the stack - Document what you build so others can understand, trust, and extend your work What We're Looking For - At least 6-10 years working in a combination of Technical RevOps, GTM Engineering, site reliability engineering (SRE) experience or other similar applied technical discipline - At least 3 years in RevOps/Sales Ops or GTM Engineering or equivalent - Proven ability to build and problem solve with methods incorporating Python, JavaScript, SQL, SOQL, or TypeScript; we pull our own data on this team - Track record of partnering successfully with data engineering to develop and maintain core pipelines including experience using data warehouses, BI tools, or event-driven systems - Experience building, developing or connecting core systems like Salesforce and adjacent GTM systems including hands on experience with CS tooling such as Gainsight, Vitally, or ChurnZero - Deep hands-on Salesforce experience — Flow, custom objects, validation rules, triggers, and reports and experience building or maintaining CPQ and billing workflows within Salesforce - Proven ability to build and problem solve with methods incorporating Python, JavaScript, SQL, or TypeScript; we pull our own data on this team - Strong hands-on ability