Senior Infrastructure Engineer - AWS & Kubernetes

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

Benefits offered by this job

Catered lunches

Fully stocked kitchens

Well-being stipends

401(k) with employer match

Job summary

CLEAR is building the secure identity platform of the future. We seek a Senior Software Engineer to scale our network infrastructure and cloud-native systems on AWS, focusing on reliability, scalability, and simplicity.

You will own the infrastructure, collaborate with multiple teams, and drive improvements in networking, service mesh, and monitoring using tools like Datadog and Splunk. This role is based in New York with remote-friendly options.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of extensive experience in infrastructure and platform development, particularly in software-defined networking and AWS cloud services.
• Proficient in writing production-grade software using Python, with strong understanding of Kubernetes and container orchestration tools like EKS and ECS.
• 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.
• Experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation, and a strong product and user-centric mindset.
• Solid understanding of networking concepts (ISO Layer, BGP, RIP) and Linux systems (Bash, Filesystems).
• Familiarity with networking appliances (Palo Alto) and configuring Nginx as reverse proxy/load balancer.
• Experience with API Gateway solutions and deploying Cloudflare or Fastly for CDN/edge security.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain streamlined processes for engineers to build and deploy scalable, reliable software-defined networking on AWS.
• Enhance the compute platform (Kubernetes) by integrating new functionalities with AWS networking concepts and service mesh (Istio).
• Collaborate across teams to implement observability using Datadog or Splunk for robust network monitoring.
• Act as a product owner for our infrastructure, gathering feedback and shaping AWS networking and cloud-native design improvements.

Skills

AWS networking

Kubernetes

Python

Terraform

Pulumi

CloudFormation

Istio

Nginx

API Gateway

Security Groups

Tools

EKS

ECS

Datadog

Splunk

Cloudflare

Fastly

Job description

CLEAR is building the secure identity platform of the future. We seek a Senior Software Engineer to scale our network infrastructure and cloud-native systems on AWS, focusing on reliability, scalability, and simplicity.

You will own the infrastructure, collaborate with multiple teams, and drive improvements in networking, service mesh, and monitoring using tools like Datadog and Splunk. This role is based in New York with remote-friendly options.