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Salary: USD 275,000 - 350,000 / annual
CLEAR is a secure identity platform company serving 43+ million members globally, transforming how people experience security and frictionless access at airports, stadiums, and in daily life.
You will lead an Infrastructure team responsible for building, operating, and scaling the cloud infrastructure and platform systems underpinning CLEAR's services. This is a hands-on management role combining people leadership with deep technical ownership.
Key responsibilities:
- Hire, develop, and mentor engineering talent through coaching, performance management, and career planning
- Own and execute the roadmap for cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and reliability initiatives
- Design, build, and operate scalable, secure, highly available cloud platform infrastructure
- Drive automation across infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and operations to improve efficiency
- Establish best practices for system reliability, observability, incident response, and disaster recovery
- Partner with engineering teams to improve deployment pipelines, service operability, and production readiness
- Provide technical leadership on architectural decisions, trade-offs, risks, and impacts
- Own operational excellence through metrics, SLAs/SLOs, and continuous improvement of system performance, reliability, and cost
Required experience:
- 3+ years managing and developing software engineers with strong coaching and team leadership skills
- Strong experience with CI/CD systems, infrastructure automation, and release engineering
- Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS) and distributed systems architecture
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi)
- Strong expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale
- Experience designing for high availability, fault tolerance, and operational resilience
- Proficiency in modern programming languages (Python, Java) and solid software engineering fundamentals
- Experience with observability tooling (monitoring, logging, tracing) and incident management
- Cross-functional collaboration and influence skills
- Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities
CLEAR offers comprehensive total rewards including healthcare, family building benefits, flexible time off, OneMedical memberships, 401(k) matching, learning & development stipends, and catered lunches at their NYC headquarters with collaborative workspace.
