Senior Platform Engineer — Scale Data Infra & Cloud Systems

Clearview AI; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision, STD and LTD

FSA - Medical and Dependent Care

EAP and wellness programs

13 Paid Holidays

Unlimited PTO

Flexible work environment

401(k) plan

Job summary

Clearview AI is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer in New York, NY to design, build, and operate the data and infrastructure platform behind our facial recognition systems. You will own end-to-end architecture, ingestion pipelines, storage design, and distributed services across cloud environments.

You will work with petabyte-scale data, build fast databases and vector stores, and implement GitOps-driven CI/CD, security, and compliance in FedRAMP contexts.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production systems.
• Hands-on experience with AWS and running production workloads in the cloud.
• Hands-on experience with containers and container orchestration.
• Experience designing large-scale data storage and retrieval, including hot and cold storage strategies.
• Experience with databases across the spectrum, including relational, distributed, and vector databases.
• Strong DevOps foundation: CI/CD, infrastructure as code, observability, and automated deployments.
• Solid grasp of computing fundamentals, data structures, and system design.
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the data and infrastructure platform that powers our facial recognition system
• Build pipelines that ingest and store petabyte-scale data in object storage, then process and index it into databases and vector stores for fast retrieval
• Design large-scale storage and retrieval systems, making deliberate choices between hot and cold storage tiers, distributed databases, and high-throughput messaging and streaming systems
• Run and scale containerized services on a container orchestration platform, deploying them through declarative configuration and GitOps workflows across multiple environments
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and the DevOps tooling that lets engineers ship safely and often
• Operate within and help maintain compliant federal environments such as FedRAMP, keeping the platform secure and auditable
• Design and operate distributed systems with a focus on reliability, performance, and scale
• Own complex infrastructure projects end to end, from design through deployment and on-call ownership, showing a high level of agency
• Troubleshoot, debug, and tune systems across the stack, from application code down to storage and networking
• Collaborate with our world class engineering team and contribute to and improve our engineering paradigms, processes, and tools
• Mentor and support other engineers through code review, pairing, and technical guidance
• Other reasonable additional responsibilities that may be asked from time to time

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

AWS

Containers

Databases

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Clearview AI is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer in New York, NY to design, build, and operate the data and infrastructure platform behind our facial recognition systems. You will own end-to-end architecture, ingestion pipelines, storage design, and distributed services across cloud environments.

You will work with petabyte-scale data, build fast databases and vector stores, and implement GitOps-driven CI/CD, security, and compliance in FedRAMP contexts.