Security Engineer
Claylabs
| Company | Claylabs |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | New York |
| Remote | Hybrid |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Not stated |
| Salary | USD 225k–300k |
| Posted | 16 Apr 2026 |
| Last verified | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Source | Employer career page (ashby) |
Description
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!
SECURITY ENGINEERING @ CLAY
We're building a modern security organization from the ground up. We're hiring senior or staff-level security engineers who are strong software engineers first, with deep expertise in either Cloud Security or Application Security and working knowledge across both.
This is a hands-on role. You'll spend significant time writing production code—security tooling, detection systems, remediation pipelines, and frameworks that make secure defaults the easiest path. You'll also help define how we leverage modern automation, including frontier AI models (e.g. Mythos), to scale security operations: autonomously discovering vulnerabilities, reviewing AI-generated code, and building detection systems that understand context and intent.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Build security primitives, tooling, and automation that scale with the product and engineering org
- Define and implement our strategy for modern security workflows: AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, automated code review, threat detection, and remediation
- Collaborate with Infrastructure and Product Engineering to make secure defaults the easiest path
- Own projects end to end: design, implementation, rollout, and measurement
CLOUD SECURITY
- Secure our cloud environment (IAM, network policies, container security, secrets management, and misco
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