Senior Cloud Networking Engineer

CLEAR - Field; New York (NY); On-site; USD 175,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Catered lunches

Fully stocked kitchens

Wellness stipend

OneMedical memberships for you and one

401(k) with employer match

CLEAR Plus membership

Flexible time off

Annual wellness stipend

Healthcare plans

Job summary

CLEAR is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Network Engineering team to build scalable, reliable networking systems on AWS. You will advance the compute platform (Kubernetes) with features tied to VPCs, SGs, ALBs/ELBs, Route53, and service mesh like Istio.

You’ll lead observability efforts using Datadog or Splunk and act as a product owner for infrastructure, aligning requirements across engineering teams and applying cloud-native design principles.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of infrastructure and platform development experience, esp. SDN and AWS.
• Proficient with Python, Kubernetes, EKS/ECS for production-grade software.
• Cloud-native design, AWS networking: VPC, SGs, NAT GW, ALBs/ELBs, Route53; firewall/WAF features.
• IaC: Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation; Linux/Bash basics.
• Networking appliances experience (e.g., Palo Alto) and Nginx as reverse proxy.
• API Gateway, CDN/edge (Cloudflare/Fastly) experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain scalable, reliable software-defined networking on AWS.
• Enhance Kubernetes compute platform, integrate new features, focus on AWS networking topics.
• Improve observability with Splunk or Datadog; advocate best practices across teams.
• Act as product owner for infrastructure, gathering feedback on AWS networking and cloud-native design.

Skills

Python

Kubernetes

AWS

IaC

Terraform

Pulumi

CloudFormation

Linux

Nginx

API Gateway

CDN/Edge

Datadog

Splunk

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

CloudFormation

Nginx

Datadog

Splunk

Job description

CLEAR is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Network Engineering team to build scalable, reliable networking systems on AWS. You will advance the compute platform (Kubernetes) with features tied to VPCs, SGs, ALBs/ELBs, Route53, and service mesh like Istio.

You’ll lead observability efforts using Datadog or Splunk and act as a product owner for infrastructure, aligning requirements across engineering teams and applying cloud-native design principles.