Senior Software Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision plans

FSA - Medical and Dependent Care

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

Clearview AI, located in New York, NY, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and operate the data and infrastructure platform for their facial recognition technologies. In this role, you will be responsible for creating data ingestion pipelines, managing scalable storage solutions, and ensuring high system reliability.

The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience, strong knowledge of distributed systems, and proficiency in backend programming. Benefits include comprehensive medical plans, unlimited PTO, and a flexible work environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production systems.
• Strong proficiency in one or more backend languages and a modern development ecosystem.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, including their failure modes and consistency tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate the data and infrastructure platform for facial recognition.
• Build pipelines that ingest and store petabyte-scale data.
• Run and scale containerized services on a container orchestration platform.

Skills

Backend languages proficiency

Distributed systems knowledge

AWS experience

Container orchestration experience

CI/CD and DevOps foundation

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, Math

Tools

AWS

Containers

Databases

Job description

Senior Software Engineer

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: New York, NY

Compensation: $175,000 - $220,000 / year

Description

Clearview AI is the leading provider of facial recognition technologies to US law enforcement, state, and federal agencies. Our mission is to help our users solve crimes and prevent financial fraud with the responsible use of our facial recognition software. Our company is a high‑octane, fast growing startup looking to hire enthusiastic and intelligent team members to join our team. To learn more about us, and our revolutionary facial recognition technology, please visit www.clearview.ai.

Position Summary: We are hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate the data and infrastructure platform behind our facial recognition and data systems. This is a software‑heavy, hands‑on role for an engineer who is comfortable owning systems end to end, from architecture and implementation through deployment and on‑call operation.

You will build pipelines that ingest petabyte‑scale data into object storage and turn it into fast, queryable databases and vector stores, design large‑scale storage and retrieval across hot and cold tiers, and run distributed services on container orchestration using declarative configuration and GitOps workflows. The platform runs in the cloud and operates within compliant federal environments, so reliability, security, and scale sit at the center of everything you build. We are looking for a strong distributed systems engineer with deep DevOps instincts who wants significant ownership and the autonomy to make sound technical tradeoffs.

Key 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

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and maintaining production systems
• Strong proficiency in one or more backend languages and a modern development ecosystem
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, including their failure modes, consistency tradeoffs, and behavior at scale
• 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

Nice to Have

• Experience working in FedRAMP or other federal or regulated environments
• Experience operating distributed SQL databases in production
• Experience with high-throughput messaging and streaming systems
• Experience operating vector databases at scale for retrieval and similarity search
• Experience with declarative configuration and GitOps‑based continuous delivery
• Experience ingesting and processing petabyte‑scale datasets from object storage

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, STD and LTD Plans
• FSA - Medical and Dependent Care
• EAP and wellness programs
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible work environment
• 401(k) plan