Engineering Manager, Infrastructure

About the role

The Engineering Manager will lead a team responsible for building, operating, and scaling the cloud infrastructure and platform systems that underpin CLEAR’s services, ensuring reliability, performance, and security across our environments.

Responsibilities

• Hire, develop, and grow engineering talent through coaching, mentorship, performance management, and career development planning
• Set clear goals and expectations, provide regular feedback, and foster accountability across the team
• Own and execute the roadmap for cloud infrastructure and platform engineering, and reliability initiatives
• Design, build, and operate a scalable, secure, and highly available cloud platform infrastructure
• Drive automation across infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and operations to improve efficiency and reduce manual overhead
• Establish and enforce best practices for system reliability, observability, incident response, and disaster recovery
• Partner with engineering teams to improve deployment pipelines, service operability, and production readiness
• Provide technical leadership, making clear architectural decisions and communicating trade-offs, risks, and impacts
• Own operational excellence through metrics, SLAs/SLOs, and continuous improvement of system performance, reliability, and cost

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience managing and developing software engineers, with strong coaching and team leadership skills
• Strong experience with CI/CD systems, infrastructure automation, and release engineering
• Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) and distributed systems architecture
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi)
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale
• Experience designing for high availability, fault tolerance, and operational resilience
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Python, and or Java) and solid software engineering fundamentals
• Experience with observability tooling (monitoring, logging, tracing) and incident management practices
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and influence teams to adopt infrastructure and operational best practices
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Curious, proactive, and committed to continuous learning and improvement

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science or related field
• Proven track record of delivering high-quality, reliable, and scalable cloud infrastructure solutions
• Experience with cloud-native technologies and microservices architecture
• Knowledge of DevOps principles and practices
• Experience with cloud security and compliance standards
• Experience with cloud monitoring and logging tools
• Experience with cloud networking and load balancing

Skills

• Cloud infrastructure and platform management
• CI/CD systems and automation
• Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools
• Observability and incident management
• DevOps and cloud-native practices
• Software engineering fundamentals

Benefits

At CLEAR, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Comprehensive healthcare plans
• Fertility and adoption/surrogacy support
• Flexible time off
• Free OneMedical memberships for you and your dependents
• A 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

Pay

$275,000 - $350,000 annually, depending on levels of skills and experience.

Schedule

Full-time, Monday through Friday, 9 AM to 6 PM.