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# Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure at CLEAR - Corporate

- **Company:** CLEAR - Corporate
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Posted:** 2026-11-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/clear/jobs/8352455

## Job description

CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences.

As an Staff Software Engineer on Cloud Infrastructure, you'll set the technical direction for the cloud platform that underpins every system at CLEAR, from AWS networking and Kubernetes to staging environments and infrastructure for AI workloads. You'll design durable, cross-team patterns and standards that make it faster and safer for every engineer at CLEAR to build, ship, and operate reliable software.

What You'll Do:

- Drive the technical direction and long-term architecture of CLEAR's cloud platform across AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), networking, and Infrastructure as Code, balancing reliability, security, cost, and simplicity
- Lead cross-functional initiatives end to end, including production-like staging environments and infrastructure for AI workloads, from RFC and design through rollout and adoption
- Define and evolve infrastructure engineering standards (IaC patterns, safe rollout and rollback, observability, network and security baselines) that teams across engineering adopt
- Act as a product owner for the platform: gather feedback from engineering teams, find the systemic pain points, and build self-service capabilities that remove toil
- Raise the engineering bar by mentoring engineers, leading design and incident reviews, and turning lessons learned into lasting system improvements

How You'll Measure Success:

- Platform reliability: availability and SLO attainment of core infrastructure services, and fewer infrastructure-caused incidents
- Developer velocity: lead time for engineers or agents to provision environments and infrastructure, and adoption of staging and self-service tooling
- Operational efficiency: reduction in toil and manual operations, and improved cloud cost efficiency
- Standards adoption: share of services and infrastructure aligned with Cloud Infrastructure standards and patterns

What You're Great At:

- Cloud architecture at scale: deep AWS expertise (VPC design, routing, Security Groups, load balancing, Route53, IAM) and designing multi-account, multi-environment platforms; experience with edge and network security tooling (e.g., Cloudflare, Palo Alto) is a plus
- Software engineering: designing and building production software systems such as services, APIs, and internal developer tools in Python, Java or similar, with strong fundamentals in system design, testing, and maintainable code. You build systems, not just configure them.
- Kubernetes and container platforms: running and evolving production EKS clusters, including cluster networking, ingress, service mesh (e.g., Istio), and cluster lifecycle management
- Infrastructure as Code and software engineering: writing production-grade software in Python or another modern language, and building reusable, well-tested Pulumi (or Terraform/CloudFormation) modules
- Reliability and observability: designing for failure, safe rollouts, leading incident response, and instrumenting systems with tools like Datadog
- Technical leadership beyond your team: driving consensus across teams through RFCs and design reviews, communicating clear trade-offs, and mentoring other engineers

How You’ll be Rewarded:

At CLEAR we help YOU move forward - because when you're at your best, we're at our best. You'll work with talented team members who are motivated by our mission of making experiences safer and easier.

In our offices, you'll enjoy benefits like meals and snacks. We invest in your well-being and learning & development with our stipend and reimbursement programs.

We offer holistic total rewards, including comprehensive healthcare plans, family building benefits (fertility and adoption/surrogacy support), flexible time off, free OneMedical memberships for you and your dependents, and a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match. The base salary range for this role is $215,000 - $260,000, depending on levels of skills and experience.

The base salary range represents the low and high end of CLEAR's salary range for this position. Salaries will vary depending on various factors which include, but are not limited to location, education, skills, experience and performance. The range listed is just one component of CLEAR's total compensation package for employees and other rewards may include annual bonuses, commission, and Restricted Stock Units.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

CLEAR provides reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities or protected needs. Please let us know if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or perform your job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include, but are not limited to, time off, extra breaks, making a change to the application process or work procedures, policy exceptions, providing documents in an alternative format, live captioning or using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.

We are committed to a transparent and secure hiring process. All communications related to this role will come directly from a CLEAR employee through valid CLEAR channels (e.g., a valid @clearme.com email address or verified CLEAR LinkedIn profile). We encourage candidates to remain alert to job scams and to report any suspicious activity.

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## About CLEAR - Corporate

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: CLEAR is a secure identity platform that uses biometrics to create frictionless experiences for travelers, sports fans, and consumers, allowing them to move quickly through security, venues, and digital check-ins.
- **Entity Type**: Public (NYSE: YOU)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2010 (acquired out of bankruptcy by Caryn Seidman Becker)
- **Founders**: Caryn Seidman Becker (Chair, CEO, and Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Identity Verification, Consumer Services, Travel Technology, Healthcare Identity
- **Target customers**: B2B (airports, stadiums, arenas, healthcare providers, government agencies) and B2C (travelers, event-goers, general consumers)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To make life safer and easier by using our secure identity platform to power friction-free experiences."

## Products & Services
- **CLEAR Plus (Airport Security)**: A membership program that allows travelers to use dedicated biometric lanes at TSA checkpoints to skip long lines. Available at 70+ airports nationwide.
- **CLEAR Health Pass**: A digital health verification tool that allows users to securely link their medical records (vaccination status, test results) for entry into venues, events, and workplaces.
- **CLEAR for Arenas & Stadiums**: Expedited entry into major sports and entertainment venues using biometric identity verification.
- **CLEAR1 (B2B Platform)**: An enterprise identity platform that helps businesses transform customer experiences, increase trust, and streamline operations across industries including healthcare, government, and travel.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available in search results (public company; market cap fluctuates).
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of **$900.8 million** (latest available data).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Partners with major airlines (Delta, United, American), TSA, and hundreds of sports and entertainment venues. The company has raised prior funding rounds before going public.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount of 1,273 employees (+15.1% YoY, +381 people).
  - 41+ million verified users nationwide.
  - 62 airport locations and hundreds of partners.
  - Expanding into healthcare and government sectors (B2B CLEAR1 platform).

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-Mover & Scale**: The dominant biometric identity platform for airport security in the U.S., with a massive installed base at 70+ airports and hundreds of venues.
- **Network Effects**: As more users enroll, the value of the platform increases for partners (airports, venues, healthcare systems) who want to offer frictionless experiences.
- **Trust & Security**: A mission-critical focus on safety, security, and customer data protection, which is a key differentiator in the sensitive identity verification space.
- **Brand Recognition**: "CLEAR" is a household name for travelers, with high consumer trust and awareness.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expansion into Healthcare & Government**: The company is actively building out its B2B CLEAR1 platform to serve healthcare systems and government agencies, leveraging its identity verification infrastructure.
- **Product Innovation**: Continued investment in new products like Health Pass and enterprise identity solutions to diversify beyond airport security.
- **Deepening Partnerships**: Growing partnerships with airlines, venues, and new verticals to expand the CLEAR network.
- **Customer Experience Obsession**: A stated commitment to "surprise and delight" customers, with a culture that values relentless problem-solving and bias for action.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: CLEAR describes itself as a team of "indefatigable problem-solvers" who are "gritty, relentless, and scrappy." Core values include: "Own It," "Speak Up," "Embrace Change," "Bias for Action," and "Obsessed with the Customer Experience."
- **Growth & Impact**: Employees work on high-impact products used by millions of people daily, with opportunities to move across engineering, product, marketing, and business development.
- **Work Style**: Hybrid/office roles primarily based in New York, NY, with some roles in Austin, TX, San Francisco, CA, and Washington, DC.
- **Engineering Culture**: Strong emphasis on data-driven decision making, building secure and scalable systems, and shipping quickly. The engineering team is growing significantly (multiple senior and staff-level roles open across backend, fullstack, mobile, infrastructure, and AI).
- **Perks & Development**: The company invests in learning and development (dedicated L&D roles), encourages internal mobility, and has a "great people" focus—"we constantly seek out talent that is smarter than we are."
- **Mission-Driven**: Employees are motivated by the mission to make daily life safer and easier, working on a platform that directly impacts how people travel, attend events, and access services.

## Sources
1. [clearme.com - Careers](https://www.clearme.com/careers)
2. [clearme.com - Who We Are](https://www.clearme.com/who-we-are)
3. [Greenhouse - Jobs at CLEAR](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/clear)
4. [LinkedIn - CLEAR](https://www.linkedin.com/company/clear-by-alclear-llc)

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