Today, CLEAR is well-known as a leader in digital & biometric identification, reducing friction for our members wherever an ID check is needed.
Were looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to establish our SRE function. You will join us to accelerate building & scaling our innovative systems that support our growing identity platform.
You will drive on SLOs, using them to find & fix gaps in our observability & our overall systems. You will lead reliability-focused practices such as load testing, capacity planning, game days, chaos testing, & incident post-mortems.
You will work hand-in-hand with the Software Engineering & Product team on the design, architecture, & implementation of new systems & services.
What You Will Do :
- Embed within an Engineering & Product pillar to deeply understand the product & implement observability across all key flows
- Facilitate & build load testing cases, ensuring we understand the limits & scaling factors of our services & systems
- Contribute to architecture & design of new services & systems, ensuring highly reliable & scalable concepts are implemented
- Work closely with Infrastructure, Developer Experience, Networking, & other teams to ensure Product Engineering requirements are met on future roadmaps & technical implementations
- Build & lead practices such as game days, chaos engineering, & failure analysis
- Build long-term capacity plans, with an eye toward reliability & cost-efficiency
Who You Are :
- A software engineer who has worked as an embedded Site Reliability Engineer
- Experience writing production-grade software in a modern language, such as Java
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems concepts (think CAP theorem), microservices architecture, & distributed tracing
- Experience with modern observability systems such as Datadog
- Experience with performance debugging tools & patterns. You should be able to read a flame graph
- A strong product & user-centric mindset
- Desire to continuously improve systems & environments
How You'll be Rewarded :
At CLEAR we help YOU move forward - because when youre at your best, were at our best. Youll work with talented team members who are motivated by our mission of making experiences safer & hybrid work environment provides flexibility.
In our offices, youll enjoy benefits like meals & snacks. We invest in your well-being & learning & development with our stipend & reimbursement programs.
We offer holistic total rewards, including comprehensive healthcare plans, family building benefits (fertility & adoption / surrogacy support), flexible time off, free OneMedical memberships for you & your dependents, & a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
The base salary range for this role is $155,500 - $190,000, depending on levels of skills & experience.
The base salary range represents the low & high end of CLEARs salary range for this position. Salaries will vary depending on various factors which include, but are not limited to location, education, skills, experience & performance.
The range listed is just one component of CLEARs total compensation package for employees & other rewards may include annual bonuses, commission, Restricted Stock Units
About CLEAR
Have you ever had that green-light feeling? When you hit every green light & the day just feels like magic. CLEAR's mission is to create frictionless experiences where every day has that feeling.
With more than 22+ million passionate members & hundreds of partners around the world, CLEARs identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, & travel.
Whether its at the airport, stadium, or right on your phone, CLEAR connects you to the things that make you, you - unlocking easier, more secure, & more seamless experiences - making them all feel like magic.
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.