Senior Software Engineer, Data

CLEAR - Corporate; New York (NY); On-site; USD 225,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive healthcare plans

Flexible time off

Meals and snacks in the office

Job summary

CLEAR - Corporate is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate a next-generation data platform. Candidates should have over 6 years of experience in data engineering, focusing on developing scalable data systems and ensuring data reliability.

The position offers a competitive salary range of $225,000 - $300,000, comprehensive healthcare benefits, and a flexible work environment. Join CLEAR in making experiences safer and easier for millions of members worldwide.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of data engineering experience.
• Strong Python and SQL skills.
• Experience with AWS services and modern data warehouses.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate scalable data systems and pipelines.
• Develop and maintain data products and pipelines.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code for data products.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipeline orchestration

Cloud application development

Collaboration tools (e.g., GitHub)

Tools

AWS

Snowflake

Airflow

Databricks

Job description

CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 38 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences.

As a Senior Software Engineer, Data, you will design, build, and operate the next generation of our data platform and products – going beyond ID to power a networked digital identity – while keeping member privacy, security, and reliability at the core.

What you’ll do:

• Build and operate scalable, reliable data systems and pipelines – from ingestion to modeling to visualization – so Analysts and Engineers can self‑service changes in an automated, tested, secure, and high‑quality manner.
• Develop and maintain end‑to‑end data products and pipelines (batch and/or streaming) that collect, clean, transform, and model data, and own the infrastructure that powers them to unlock new business use cases and reporting.
• Implement and maintain infrastructure‑as‑code, CI/CD, and shared developer tooling for data products (e.g., Pulumi/Terraform, GitHub, orchestration tools like Dagster/Airflow) to make it easy and safe for teams to build, test, and ship changes across environments.
• Improve the security, compliance, and cost posture of the data stack through robust dependency management, IAM and secrets hardening, observability, and performance/cost optimizations.
• Partner with product and other stakeholders to uncover requirements, make architectural decisions, and continuously improve our data platform and processes.

How you’ll measure success:

• Data reliability & SLAs: % successful pipeline runs, adherence to freshness SLAs for core datasets, and reduction in data‑related incidents impacting stakeholders.
• Platform quality & efficiency: Reduction in critical/high security and dependency findings, improvements in IAM/secrets posture, and optimizations to infrastructure and job run costs.
• Delivery throughput & self‑service enablement: Lead time from request to production for new data sources and models, adoption and effectiveness of self‑service tooling, reduction in manual engineering support for common workflows, and on‑time delivery of roadmap initiatives.

What you’re great at:

• 6+ years of data engineering experience with strong Python and SQL skills, including designing and operating scalable batch and/or streaming data pipelines and orchestration (e.g., Dagster, Airflow, Luigi, dbt, Snowflake, Spark, Kafka, Databricks, or similar technologies).
• Working with cloud‑based application development and data platforms, including AWS services, modern data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake), evaluating different data platform integration tooling (e.g. APIs, CDC, batch ingestion, streaming) and collaboration/integration tools like GitHub, Argo, Jenkins, or equivalent.
• Designing and implementing robust data models and transformations in the data warehouse (e.g., dbt, Snowflake) as well as self‑service tooling for the other members of the data platform team.
• Articulating technical concepts to mixed technical and non‑technical audiences, collaborating across teams, mentoring less experienced engineers, and maintaining clarity in ambiguous problem spaces.
• Demonstrating curiosity about technology, a bias toward continuous learning, and a strong sense of ownership over architecture, quality, and process improvements in a fast‑moving environment.

How You’ll be Rewarded:

At CLEAR we help YOU move forward – because when you’re at your best, we’re at our best. You’ll work with talented team members who are motivated by our mission of making experiences safer and easier. In our offices, you’ll enjoy benefits like meals and snacks. We invest in your well‑being and learning & development with our stipend and reimbursement programs.

We offer holistic total rewards, including comprehensive healthcare plans, family building benefits (fertility and adoption/surrogacy support), flexible time off, free OneMedical memberships for you and your dependents, and a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.

The total compensation range for this role is $225,000 - $300,000, depending on levels of skills and experience.

This range represents the combined base salary, and new hire equity package (in Restricted Stock Units) for this position at CLEAR. Additionally, this role will be eligible for refresh equity grants as part of our ongoing compensation program. Actual compensation will vary based on factors including, but not limited to, location, education, skills, experience, and performance. All stock based compensation will be subject to the terms and conditions of applicable agreements.

This role is based out of our Headquarters in NYC and has a 5 day in‑office expectation.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

CLEAR provides reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities or protected needs. Please let us know if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job or perform your job. Examples of reasonable accommodation include, but are not limited to, time off, extra breaks, making a change to the application process or work procedures, policy exceptions, providing documents in an alternative format, live captioning or using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.

We are committed to a transparent and secure hiring process. All communications related to this role will come directly from a CLEAR employee through valid CLEAR channels (e.g., a valid @clearme.com email address or verified CLEAR LinkedIn profile). We encourage candidates to remain alert to job scams and to report any suspicious activity.