Careers at Clear

CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We're looking for Software Engineers to help build the next generation of CLEAR's identity platform. Beyond verifying identity, we're creating a secure, networked digital identity that enables seamless experiences across travel, enterprise, healthcare, financial services, and beyond. As a Software Engineer, you'll own complex technical problems from design through deployment, partnering closely with Product, Design, Security, and Operations to deliver reliable, scalable solutions. We're looking for engineers with a strong builder mindset who thrive in ambiguity, take ownership, and enjoy turning ideas into production systems. We’re looking for an early career Software Engineer to join our Digital Experience team. In this role, you will build and ship full-stack features on some of CLEAR's highest-traffic sites, used by millions of members to enroll, manage their membership, and book services. The ideal candidate for this role will bring strong fundamentals, a bias for action, and a desire to grow quickly alongside experienced engineers. Tech stack overview: Java / React / Typescript What you’ll do: Design, build, test, and deploy scalable full-stack applications that power CLEAR's identity platform. Own projects end-to-end from technical discovery and architecture through implementation, rollout, and operational support. Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Security, and Operations to translate business problems into simple, scalable technical solutions. Drive engineering excellence by improving system reliability, performance, testing, observability, and developer experience. Contribute to architectural decisions and continuously improve the scalability, security, and maintainability of our platform. Partner with teammates through thoughtful code reviews, technical collaboration, and sharing engineering best practices. What you’re great at: 0-2 years of professional full-stack software engineering experience building production applications using technologies such as Python, React, and TypeScript. Strong technical fundamentals across distributed systems, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and modern software architecture. Experience building and operating cloud-native applications using AWS and technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines. A demonstrated history of owning complex, cross-functional projects and driving them from idea to production with a bias for action. Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts and influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments, making thoughtful tradeoffs, and independently driving work forward. A collaborative mindset with a passion for partnering with others, continuously improving engineering practices, and building products that deliver measurable customer and business impact. How You’ll be Rewarded: At CLEAR, we help YOU move forward - because when you’re at your best, we’re at our best. You’ll work with talented team members motivated by our mission of making experiences safer and easier. Our offices are bright and energetic with an open concept and plenty of conference rooms and casual co-working spaces. We also offer catered lunches every day and have fully stocked kitchens. Outside of the office, we invest in your well-being and learning & development with stipends and reimbursement programs. We offer holistic total rewards, including comprehensive healthcare plans, family-building benefits (fertility and adoption/surrogacy support), flexible time off, annual wellness stipend, free OneMedical memberships for you and your dependents, a CLEAR Plus membership, and a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match. The base salary range for this role is $105,000-$125,000. This range represents the combined base salary, annual bonus incentive, and new hire equity package (in Restricted Stock Units) for this position at CLEAR. Additionally, this role will be eligible for refresh equity grants as part of our ongoing compensation program. Actual compensation will vary based on factors including, but not limited to, location, education, skills, experience, and performance. All stock based compensation will be subject to the terms and conditions of applicable agreements. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. 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. We are committed to a transparent and secure hiring process. All communications related to this role will come directly from a CLEAR employee through valid CLEAR channels (e.g., a valid @clearme.com email address or verified CLEAR LinkedIn profile). We encourage candidates to remain alert to job scams and to report any suspicious activity. #LI-Onsite

CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We're looking for Fullstack Software Engineers to help build the next generation of CLEAR's identity platform. Beyond verifying identity, we're creating a secure, networked digital identity that enables seamless experiences across travel, enterprise, healthcare, financial services, and beyond. As a Software Engineer, you'll own complex technical problems from design through deployment, partnering closely with Product, Design, Security, and Operations to deliver reliable, scalable solutions. We're looking for engineers with a strong builder mindset who thrive in ambiguity, take ownership, and enjoy turning ideas into production systems. Level and team matching (open roles across the three pillars that make up Technology at CLEAR: Core Identity, CLEAR1 , and CLEAR Travel ) will occur towards the end of our interview process. Tech stack overview: Java / React / Typescript What you’ll do: Design, build, test, and deploy scalable full-stack applications that power CLEAR's identity platform. Own projects end-to-end from technical discovery and architecture through implementation, rollout, and operational support. Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Security, and Operations to translate business problems into simple, scalable technical solutions. Drive engineering excellence by improving system reliability, performance, testing, observability, and developer experience. Contribute to architectural decisions and continuously improve the scalability, security, and maintainability of our platform. Partner with teammates through thoughtful code reviews, technical collaboration, and sharing engineering best practices. What you’re great at: 3+ years of professional full-stack software engineering experience building production applications using technologies such as Python, React, and TypeScript. Strong technical fundamentals across distributed systems, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and modern software architecture. Experience building and operating cloud-native applications using AWS and technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines. A demonstrated history of owning complex, cross-functional projects and driving them from idea to production with a bias for action. Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts and influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments, making thoughtful tradeoffs, and independently driving work forward. A collaborative mindset with a passion for partnering with others, continuously improving engineering practices, and building products that deliver measurable customer and business impact. Our process: We keep a swift process with shorter timelines that make the best use of everyone’s time. Our process is usually completed in about 3 weeks. Here’s what you can expect: Recruiter Call → Zoom Technical Screen → Onsite Panel Interviews → Final Manager Conversations → Offer How You’ll be Rewarded: At CLEAR, we help YOU move forward - because when you’re at your best, we’re at our best. You’ll work with talented team members motivated by our mission of making experiences safer and easier. Our offices are bright and energetic with an open concept and plenty of conference rooms and casual co-working spaces. We also offer catered lunches every day and have fully stocked kitchens. Outside of the office, we invest in your well-being and learning & development with stipends and reimbursement programs. We offer holistic total rewards, including comprehensive healthcare plans, family-building benefits (fertility and adoption/surrogacy support), flexible time off, annual wellness stipend, free OneMedical memberships for you and your dependents, a CLEAR Plus membership, and a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match. The total compensation range for this role is $180,000 - $220,000, depending on levels of skills and experience. This range represents the combined base salary, annual bonus incentive, and new hire equity package (in Restricted Stock Units) for this position at CLEAR. Additionally, this role will be eligible for refresh equity grants as part of our ongoing compensation program. Actual compensation will vary based on factors including, but not limited to, location, education, skills, experience, and performance. All stock based compensation will be subject to the terms and conditions of applicable agreements. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. 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. We are committed to a transparent and secure hiring process. All communications related to this role will come directly from a CLEAR employee through valid CLEAR channels (e.g., a valid @clearme.com email address or verified CLEAR LinkedIn profile). We encourage candidates to remain alert to job scams and to report any suspicious activity. #LI-Onsite

CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. In this role, you will design, build, and deploy AI-powered systems that accelerate AI adoption across CLEAR’s internal workflows and customer-facing product experiences. This role will partner directly with Product, Engineering, Data, Security, Legal, Compliance, Operations, and business teams to identify high-impact AI opportunities, rapidly prototype solutions, and productionize reliable, secure, and measurable AI systems. You will own use cases end-to-end, from discovery and evaluation through launch, monitoring, and iteration. What you'll do: Discover, prioritize, and build AI use cases across internal tools, employee workflows, and customer-facing product features Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, Security, Legal, Compliance, and Operations to translate business needs into AI-driven solutions Rapidly prototype AI agents, LLM applications, RAG workflows, automation tools, and product experiences Productionize validated AI use cases with strong evaluation, monitoring, logging, fallback paths, and operational ownership Build reusable patterns for prompt management, retrieval, tool use, evals, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop workflows Implement responsible AI best practices, including privacy, security, model governance, risk review, and customer impact assessment Measure and communicate AI impact across adoption, quality, cost reduction, productivity, customer experience, and business outcomes How you’ll measure success: Number of high-impact internal and customer-facing AI use cases launched Adoption and measurable business impact of AI-powered tools and features Quality, reliability, latency, and safety of deployed AI systems Reduction in manual work, operational cost, or customer support volume Improvement in customer experience, containment, accuracy, or workflow efficiency Percentage of AI use cases with clear owners, evals, monitoring, and governance controls Speed from AI opportunity identification to prototype, pilot, and production launch What you’re great at: 2+ years of experience in software engineering, AI engineering, machine learning engineering, data engineering, or related technical roles Hands-on experience building with LLMs, AI agents, RAG, model APIs, prompt engineering, or AI application frameworks Strong programming skills in Python and/or another modern backend language Experience building and deploying production systems with APIs, data platforms, cloud infrastructure, logging, monitoring, and testing Ability to work directly with business teams to understand ambiguous workflows and turn them into usable AI products Strong product judgment and ability to identify practical, high-ROI AI use cases Understanding of responsible AI concepts, including evals, guardrails, data privacy, security, human oversight, and model governance Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical, non-technical, and executive stakeholders Comfort operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with strong ownership from idea to impact Passion for building AI systems that are practical, secure, measurable, and user-centric How You’ll be Rewarded: At CLEAR, we help YOU move forward - because when you’re at your best, we’re at our best. You’ll work with talented team members motivated by our mission of making experiences safer and easier. Our offices are bright and energetic with an open concept and plenty of conference rooms and casual co-working spaces. We also offer catered lunches every day and have fully stocked kitchens. Outside of the office, we invest in your well-being and learning & development with stipends and reimbursement programs. We offer holistic total rewards, including comprehensive healthcare plans, family-building benefits (fertility and adoption/surrogacy support), flexible time off, annual wellness stipend, free OneMedical memberships for you and your dependents, a CLEAR Plus membership, and a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match. The total compensation range for this role is $180,000 - $220,000 , depending on levels of skills and experience. This range represents the combined base salary, annual bonus incentive, and new hire equity package (in Restricted Stock Units) for this position at CLEAR. Additionally, this role will be eligible for refresh equity grants as part of our ongoing compensation program. Actual compensation will vary based on factors including, but not limited to, location, education, skills, experience, and performance. All stock based compensation will be subject to the terms and conditions of applicable agreements. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. 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. We are committed to a transparent and secure hiring process. All communications related to this role will come directly from a CLEAR employee through valid CLEAR channels (e.g., a valid @clearme.com email address or verified CLEAR LinkedIn profile). We encourage candidates to remain alert to job scams and to report any suspicious activity. #LI-Onsite

CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to establish our Observability framework and foundations. You will join us to accelerate building and scaling our innovative systems that support our growing identity platform. You will drive on Observability best practices to find and fix gaps in our observability and our overall systems. You will also lead practices such as load testing, capacity planning, game days, chaos testing, and incident post-mortems. What You Will Do: Embed within the Engineering pillar to deeply understand the product and implement observability across all key flows Facilitate and build load testing cases, ensuring we understand the limits and scaling factors of our services and systems Contribute to observability and support the design of new services and systems, ensuring highly reliable and scalable concepts are implemented Build and lead practices such as game days, chaos engineering, and failure analysis Build long-term capacity plans, with an eye toward reliability and cost-efficiency Who You Are: 6+ experience writing production-grade software in a modern language, such as Java and Python. Strong knowledge of distributed systems concepts (think CAP theorem), microservices architecture, and distributed tracing . Experience with modern observability systems such as Datadog. Experience with performance debugging tools and patterns. You should be able to read a flame graph. A strong product and user-centric mindset. Desire to continuously improve systems and environments. A demonstrated history of owning complex, cross-functional projects and driving them from idea to production with a bias for action. Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts and influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments, making thoughtful tradeoffs, and independently driving work forward. A collaborative mindset with a passion for mentoring others, continuously improving engineering practices, and building products that deliver measurable customer and business impact. Our process: We keep a swift process with shorter timelines that make the best use of everyone’s time. Our process is usually completed in about 3 weeks. Here’s what you can expect: Recruiter Call → Zoom Technical Screen → Onsite Panel Interviews → Final Manager Conversations → Offer How You’ll be Rewarded: At CLEAR, we help YOU move forward - because when you’re at your best, we’re at our best. You’ll work with talented team members motivated by our mission of making experiences safer and easier. Our offices are bright and energetic with an open concept and plenty of conference rooms and casual co-working spaces. We also offer catered lunches every day and have fully stocked kitchens. Outside of the office, we invest in your well-being and learning & development with stipends and reimbursement programs. We offer holistic total rewards, including comprehensive healthcare plans, family-building benefits (fertility and adoption/surrogacy support), flexible time off, annual wellness stipend, free OneMedical memberships for you and your dependents, a CLEAR Plus membership, and a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match. The total compensation range for this role is $225,000 - $300,000, depending on levels of skills and experience. This range represents the combined base salary, annual bonus incentive, and new hire equity package (in Restricted Stock Units) for this position at CLEAR. Additionally, this role will be eligible for refresh equity grants as part of our ongoing compensation program. Actual compensation will vary based on factors including, but not limited to, location, education, skills, experience, and performance. All stock based compensation will be subject to the terms and conditions of applicable agreements. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. 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. We are committed to a transparent and secure hiring process. All communications related to this role will come directly from a CLEAR employee through valid CLEAR channels (e.g., a valid @clearme.com email address or verified CLEAR LinkedIn profile). We encourage candidates to remain alert to job scams and to report any suspicious activity. #LI-Onsite

CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. As a Senior FullStack Software Engineer on the CLEAR1 team, you’ll operate at the intersection of modern web platforms, healthcare interoperability standards, and high-assurance identity systems powering frictionless, trusted healthcare experiences nationwide to connect patients, providers, and partners. A brief highlight of our tech stack: Python / React / Typescript / AWS cloud What you’ll do: Design and deliver secure, scalable fullstack solutions that integrate with enterprise EHR systems and national health information exchange frameworks Build and maintain healthcare data integrations leveraging FHIR (RESTful APIs/JSON) and HL7 v2 messaging to enable compliant, real-time data exchange Develop identity resolution and patient matching capabilities using identifiers such as MRNs and NPIs to ensure integrity across disparate clinical systems Partner with Engineering, Security, Product, and Health Information Management teams to implement compliant, audit-ready workflows for regulated healthcare processes Collaborate with external vendors (e.g., Epic Technical Services) to troubleshoot integration issues, manage deployments across TST/PRD environments, and ensure production reliability How you’ll measure success: Successful delivery and stability of FHIR/HL7 integrations across healthcare partners Reduction in data integrity issues related to patient matching and identity resolution High system uptime and successful production deployments across tiered clinical environments Audit readiness and compliance adherence for regulated workflows (e.g., EPCS, identity assurance requirements) What you’re great at: 6+ years of fullstack software engineering experience building scalable web applications and APIs Demonstrated proficiency in healthcare interoperability standards, including FHIR (REST/JSON) and working knowledge of HL7 v2 event-driven messaging Experience navigating national health information exchange frameworks such as TEFCA, QHINs, or Carequality Practical experience integrating with enterprise EHR systems—ideally Epic—via web service layers such as Interconnect Ability to manage secure API authentication, service accounts (e.g., Epic EMP records), and audited system-to-system communication Experience promoting software across tiered clinical environments, including Testing (TST) and Production (PRD) Knowledge of high-assurance identity standards (e.g., NIST IAL2), biometric validation, and document verification workflows Familiarity with regulated healthcare security requirements, including EPCS and audit logging standards Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, including working alongside HIM teams and external vendor support to resolve integration challenges Articulating technical concepts across ambiguous projects to a mixed audience of technical and non-technical stakeholders Collaborating and mentoring less experienced members of the team How You’ll be Rewarded: At CLEAR, we help YOU move forward - because when you’re at your best, we’re at our best. You’ll work with talented team members motivated by our mission of making experiences safer and easier. Our offices are bright and energetic with an open concept and plenty of conference rooms and casual co-working spaces. We also offer catered lunches every day and have fully stocked kitchens. Outside of the office, we invest in your well-being and learning & development with stipends and reimbursement programs. We offer holistic total rewards, including comprehensive healthcare plans, family-building benefits (fertility and adoption/surrogacy support), flexible time off, annual wellness stipend, free OneMedical memberships for you and your dependents, a CLEAR Plus membership, and a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match. The base salary range for this role is $175,000 to $215,000, depending on levels of skills and experience. The base salary range represents the low and high end of CLEAR’s salary range for this position. Salaries will vary depending on various factors which include, but are not limited to location, education, skills, experience and performance. The range listed is just one component of CLEAR’s total compensation package for employees and other rewards may include annual bonuses, commission, Restricted Stock Units 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. We are committed to a transparent and secure hiring process. All communications related to this role will come directly from a CLEAR employee through valid CLEAR channels (e.g., a valid @clearme.com email address or verified CLEAR LinkedIn profile). We encourage candidates to remain alert to job scams and to report any suspicious activity. #LI-Onsite

CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We're looking for Senior Fullstack Software Engineers to help build the next generation of CLEAR's mission and vision. Beyond verifying identity, we're creating a secure, networked digital identity that enables seamless experiences across travel, enterprise, healthcare, financial services, and beyond. As a Senior Software Engineer III, you'll own complex technical problems from design through deployment, partnering closely with Product, Design, Security, and Operations to deliver reliable, scalable solutions. We're looking for engineers with a strong builder mindset who thrive in ambiguity, take ownership, and enjoy turning ideas into production systems. Level and team matching (open roles across the three pillars that make up Technology at CLEAR: Core Identity, CLEAR1 , and CLEAR Travel ) will occur towards the end of our interview process. Tech stack overview: A brief highlight of our tech stack: Java / Kafka / Postgres AWS cloud What you'll do: Advance our capabilities across a wide array of industries and domains and gain hands-on experience with privacy, security, data modeling and architecture Develop and deliver code across the full stack, driving engineering excellence by defining to best practices in testing, documentation and observability Partner with product and other stakeholders to uncover requirements, to innovate, and to solve complex problems Have a strong sense of ownership, responsible for architectural decision-making and striving for continuous improvement in technology and processes at CLEAR What you’re great at: 6+ years of backend software development experience in Java Working with cloud-based application development, and being fluent in at least a few of: Cloud service providers like AWS Containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes Collaboration, integration, and deployment tools like Github, Argo, and Jenkins Articulating technical concepts to a mixed audience of technical and non-technical stakeholders Collaborating and mentoring less experienced members of the team Comfort with ambiguity Curiosity about technology, belief in constant learning, and athe bility to be autonomous to figure out what's important How You’ll be Rewarded: At CLEAR, we help YOU move forward - because when you’re at your best, we’re at our best. You’ll work with talented team members motivated by our mission of making experiences safer and easier. Our offices are bright and energetic with an open concept and plenty of conference rooms and casual co-working spaces. We also offer catered lunches every day and have fully stocked kitchens. Outside of the office, we invest in your well-being and learning & development with stipends and reimbursement programs. We offer holistic total rewards, including comprehensive healthcare plans, family-building benefits (fertility and adoption/surrogacy support), flexible time off, annual wellness stipend, free OneMedical memberships for you and your dependents, a CLEAR Plus membership, and a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match. The total compensation range for this role is $220,000 to $290,000 , depending on levels of skills and experience. This range represents the combined base salary, annual bonus incentive, and new hire equity package (in Restricted Stock Units) for this position at CLEAR. Additionally, this role will be eligible for refresh equity grants as part of our ongoing compensation program. Actual compensation will vary based on factors including, but not limited to, location, education, skills, experience, and performance. All stock based compensation will be subject to the terms and conditions of applicable agreements. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. 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. We are committed to a transparent and secure hiring process. All communications related to this role will come directly from a CLEAR employee through valid CLEAR channels (e.g., a valid @clearme.com email address or verified CLEAR LinkedIn profile). We encourage candidates to remain alert to job scams and to report any suspicious activity. #LI-Onsite

CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 43 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to help build the next generation of CLEAR's enterprise identity platform, CLEAR1. We’re creating frictionless identity solutions for some of the most sophisticated companies in the world and pushing the boundaries everywhere we go. As a Staff Engineer, you’ll own high-impact, cross-functional products and integrations end to end from problem framing and architecture through implementation, rollout, adoption, and measurable outcomes. This is an ideal role for someone who thrives in scrappy, ambiguous environments, while bringing the technical rigor and operating discipline developed at larger companies. You’ll partner across teams, establish reusable patterns and standards, improve reliability and execution, influence technical direction, and mentor other engineers. A brief highlight of our tech stack: Python / Java / React / Typescript What you’ll do: Design, build, test, and deploy scalable applications that power CLEAR’s identity platform. Own projects end to end—from technical discovery and architecture through implementation, rollout, adoption, and operational support. Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, Security, and Operations to translate business problems into simple, scalable technical solutions. Design for reality by understanding failure modes, system dependencies, degradation strategies, recovery paths, and the points where systems may break under scale. Build quality and operability into the design from the start, including test strategy, observability, alerting, safe rollouts, rollback plans, and ongoing system health monitoring. Drive technical direction and engineering best practices across teams by identifying architectural opportunities, reducing technical debt, and improving platform scalability, security, and maintainability. Introduce the right level of rigor without adding unnecessary process, helping teams make clearer decisions and execute with greater confidence. Bring others along by communicating tradeoffs clearly, inviting diverse perspectives, building alignment, and turning good ideas into shared decisions and action. Raise the bar for engineering quality through thoughtful code reviews, design reviews, technical collaboration, and direct, constructive feedback. Mentor and develop teammates, helping them become stronger engineers and more effective owners of their work. Take ownership beyond implementation by proactively identifying opportunities, influencing the roadmap, driving improvements through completion, and remaining accountable for outcomes. What you’re great at: 9+ years of professional software engineering experience building production applications using technologies such as Python, React, and TypeScript. Strong technical fundamentals across distributed systems, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and modern software architecture. Experience building and operating cloud-native applications using AWS and technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines. A demonstrated history of owning complex, cross-functional projects and driving them from idea to production with a bias for action. Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts and influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments, making thoughtful tradeoffs, and independently driving work forward. A collaborative mindset with a passion for mentoring others, continuously improving engineering practices, and building products that deliver measurable customer and business impact. Our process: We keep a swift process with shorter timelines that make the best use of everyone’s time. Our process is usually completed in about 3 weeks. Here’s what you can expect: Recruiter Call → Zoom Technical Screen → Onsite Panel Interviews → Final Manager Conversations → Offer How You’ll be Rewarded: At CLEAR, we help YOU move forward - because when you’re at your best, we’re at our best. You’ll work with talented team members motivated by our mission of making experiences safer and easier. Our offices are bright and energetic with an open concept and plenty of conference rooms and casual co-working spaces. We also offer catered lunches every day and have fully stocked kitchens. Outside of the office, we invest in your well-being and learning & development with stipends and reimbursement programs. We offer holistic total rewards, including comprehensive healthcare plans, family-building benefits (fertility and adoption/surrogacy support), flexible time off, annual wellness stipend, free OneMedical memberships for you and your dependents, a CLEAR Plus membership, and a 401(k) retirement plan with employer match. The total compensation range for this role is $325,000- $500,000, depending on levels of skills and experience. This range represents the combined base salary, annual bonus incentive, and new hire equity package (in Restricted Stock Units) for this position at CLEAR. Additionally, this role will be eligible for refresh equity grants as part of our ongoing compensation program. Actual compensation will vary based on factors including, but not limited to, location, education, skills, experience, and performance. All stock based compensation will be subject to the terms and conditions of applicable agreements. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. 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. We are committed to a transparent and secure hiring process. All communications related to this role will come directly from a CLEAR employee through valid CLEAR channels (e.g., a valid @clearme.com email address or verified CLEAR LinkedIn profile). We encourage candidates to remain alert to job scams and to report any suspicious activity. #LI-Onsite