Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure
CLEAR - Corporate · New York, NY
$175,000–$215,000from the description
Jul 6, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role sits within a network engineering team and centers on building and maintaining software-defined networking infrastructure on AWS, including VPC design, load balancers, Route53, and service mesh (Istio) on Kubernetes. The position also involves owning the infrastructure product lifecycle — gathering requirements from internal engineering teams and translating them into cloud-native solutions. It suits an experienced infrastructure engineer with deep AWS networking knowledge and hands-on Kubernetes and IaC background.
Senior level · 6+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 370 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 140–480
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The role sits at the intersection of software development and network/infrastructure engineering — it explicitly requires writing production-grade software (Python) and building IaC, which drove the Software Developers classification over Network/Systems Administrators, but the heavy networking focus (BGP, VPC design, Palo Alto appliances) makes 15-1244 a credible runner-up.
The posting is tagged '#LI-Onsite' and references physical offices with catered lunches, confirming this is an in-person role. CLEAR is headquartered in New York City; no other location is specified.
Cloudflare/Fastly appears in the 'What you're great at' requirements section but is framed as 'knowledgeable in' rather than firm gating language, so it is treated as preferred.
The IaC requirement names Terraform, Pulumi, and CloudFormation as interchangeable options; Terraform is listed as the primary with the others as alternatives.
Splunk and Datadog are presented as interchangeable observability tools ('Splunk or Datadog'); Splunk is listed as primary with Datadog as the alternative.
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