Engineering Manager, Cloud Infrastructure & Platform

CLEAR - Corporate; New York (NY); On-site; USD 275,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare plans

Fertility & adoption support

OneMedical memberships

401(k) with employer match

Catered lunches

Job summary

CLEAR is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead one of our Infrastructure teams in New York. You will guide cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and reliability initiatives to deliver scalable, secure systems in a fast-paced environment.

The ideal candidate has AWS, IaC (Terraform, Pulumi), Kubernetes, and a track record of growing high-performing teams. This on-site role offers a competitive total rewards package based in New York City.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience managing and developing software engineers.
• Strong experience with CI/CD systems, infrastructure automation, and release engineering.
• Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., 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 Python or Java and solid software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience with observability tooling (monitoring, logging, tracing) and incident management practices.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and influence teams to adopt infrastructure and operational best practices.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Curious, proactive, and committed to continuous learning and improvement.

Responsibilities

• Hire, develop, and grow engineering talent through coaching, mentorship, performance management, and career development planning
• Set clear goals and expectations, provide regular feedback, and foster accountability across the team
• Own and execute the roadmap for cloud infrastructure and platform engineering, and reliability initiatives
• Design, build, and operate a scalable, secure, and highly available cloud platform infrastructure
• Drive automation across infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and operations to improve efficiency and reduce manual overhead
• Establish and enforce 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, making clear architectural decisions and communicating trade-offs, risks, and impacts
• Own operational excellence through metrics, SLAs/SLOs, and continuous improvement of system performance, reliability, and cost

Skills

Team leadership

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

AWS

Terraform

Pulumi

Kubernetes

High availability

Python/Java

Observability

Incident management

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Kubernetes

Job description

CLEAR is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead one of our Infrastructure teams in New York. You will guide cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and reliability initiatives to deliver scalable, secure systems in a fast-paced environment.

The ideal candidate has AWS, IaC (Terraform, Pulumi), Kubernetes, and a track record of growing high-performing teams. This on-site role offers a competitive total rewards package based in New York City.