Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p>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 38 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.</p></div><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Network Engineering team to accelerate building and scaling our innovative systems that support our growing identity platform. In this role, you will build the next-generation infrastructure that underpins all systems at CLEAR. The ideal candidate for this role will approach challenges with an eye toward reliability, simplicity, and scalability.</span></p> <hr> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><strong>What You'll Do:</strong></em></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Develop and maintain a streamlined process for engineers to effortlessly build and deploy scalable and reliable software-defined networking solutions on AWS.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Enhance our compute platform (Kubernetes) by integrating new functionalities and features, focusing on AWS networking services and concepts such as VPCs, Route Tables, Security Groups (SGs), ALBs/ELBs, and Route53, as well as implementing Kubernetes networking solutions like service mesh (Istio) to optimize service communication and management.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Collaborate across engineering teams to advocate for and implement best practices in observability, utilizing tools like Splunk or Datadog to ensure robust network monitoring.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Act as a product owner for our infrastructure, collecting feedback and requirements from engineering teams to address pain points and develop solutions, particularly in the realm of AWS networking and cloud-native design principles.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em><strong>What you're great at:</strong></em></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">6+ years of extensive experience in infrastructure and platform development, particularly in software-defined networking and AWS cloud services.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Proficient in writing <span style="text-decoration: underline;">production-grade</span> software using modern languages such as Python, with a strong understanding of Kubernetes and container orchestration tools like EKS and ECS.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Well-versed in cloud-native design principles and AWS networking services, including VPC design, SGs, NATGWs, ALBs/ELBs, Route53, and security features like AWS Network Firewall and AWS WAF.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experienced with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or Cloudformation, and possess a strong product and user-centric mindset.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Committed to continuously improving systems and environments, with a solid understanding of networking concepts (ISO Layer, BGP, RIP, etc.) and Linux systems (Bash, Filesystems, etc.).</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Equipped with an understanding of and experience with traditional networking appliances and equipment, such as Palo Alto, to effectively maintain connectivity at scale.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Skilled in configuring and managing Nginx as a reverse proxy and load balancer to optimize application delivery and performance.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experienced in implementing and managing API Gateway solutions to facilitate secure and scalable API management.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Knowledgeable in deploying and managing cloud solutions such as Cloudflare or Fastly to enhance web performance and security through CDN and edge computing capabilities.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><em>Our process:</em></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We keep a swift process with shorter timelines that make the best use of everyone’s time.  Our process is usually completed in about 3 weeks.  Here’s what you can expect: </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Recruiter Call → Zoom Technical Screen → Onsite Panel Interviews → Final Manager Conversations →…