Senior Software Engineer - Observability & Reliability

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

Benefits offered by this job

Catered lunches

Wellness stipend

OneMedical memberships

401k with employer match

Fully stocked kitchens

CLEAR Plus membership

Job summary

CLEAR is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to establish our Observability framework and foundations for the identity platform. You will join to accelerate building and scaling our systems and drive best practices in observability, testing, and incident post-mortems.

You will embed within the Engineering pillar, lead load testing, capacity planning, game days, chaos testing, and incident analysis while mentoring others and influencing stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of production-grade software experience in Java or Python.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, CAP, microservices, and tracing.
• Experience with Datadog observability platform.
• Ability to read flame graphs and debug performance.
• Product and user-centric mindset.
• History of owning complex cross-functional projects.
• Excellent communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfortable in ambiguous environments with independent drive.

Responsibilities

• Embed within Engineering to implement observability across key flows.
• Facilitate load testing and understand limits and scaling.
• Contribute to design of new services with reliable, scalable concepts.
• Build and lead game days, chaos engineering, and failure analysis.
• Develop long-term capacity plans focusing on reliability and cost-efficiency.

Skills

Java

Python

Distributed systems

Microservices

Observability

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

Datadog

Job description

CLEAR is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to establish our Observability framework and foundations for the identity platform. You will join to accelerate building and scaling our systems and drive best practices in observability, testing, and incident post-mortems.

You will embed within the Engineering pillar, lead load testing, capacity planning, game days, chaos testing, and incident analysis while mentoring others and influencing stakeholders.