CLEAR

Senior Software Engineer, Observability

CLEAR
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Responsibilities

  • Establish observability frameworks and foundations across CLEAR’s engineering organization.
  • Implement observability across key product flows and support reliable, scalable service design.
  • Build load-testing cases to evaluate service limits and scaling factors.
  • Lead game days, chaos engineering, failure analysis, and incident post-mortems.
  • Develop long-term capacity plans focused on reliability and cost efficiency.
  • Own complex cross-functional projects from concept through production and mentor other engineers.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience writing production-grade software in a modern language such as Java or Python.
  • Strong knowledge of distributed systems concepts, microservices architecture, and distributed tracing.
  • Experience with modern observability systems such as Datadog.
  • Experience with performance debugging tools and the ability to read flame graphs.
  • Demonstrated product and user-centric mindset with a history of continuously improving systems and environments.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to operate in ambiguous environments, make thoughtful tradeoffs, and drive work independently.
  • Collaborative mindset and passion for mentoring and improving engineering practices.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare plans, family-building benefits, flexible time off, annual wellness stipend, OneMedical memberships, CLEAR Plus membership, and a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
  • Catered lunches, fully stocked kitchens, and bright offices with conference rooms and casual co-working spaces.
  • Learning and development stipends and reimbursement programs.
  • Hiring process is typically completed in about three weeks and includes recruiter, technical screen, onsite panel, and manager interviews.
  • Role is listed as onsite.

Tech Stack

DatadogJavaPython

Categories

Site Reliability
CLEAR

About CLEAR

1,001-5,000 employees

CLEAR builds a biometric identity platform used to verify people quickly at airports, stadiums, and online. It sells CLEAR Plus consumer subscriptions for expedited airport security and provides enterprise identity, age verification, and digital ID services to partners in travel, healthcare, and financial services. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, the company is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker YOU.

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