Engineering Manager

We’re looking for a customer-obsessed, strategically-minded engineering leader to join our Austin office and lead development for one of CLEAR’s most critical product areas: our TSA PreCheck experience.

At CLEAR, we build secure, seamless customer journeys that power everything from airports to digital onboarding. As an Engineering Leader, you’ll be responsible for guiding teams that create the systems behind these experiences—trusted identity workflows, high-availability APIs, and operational tools that move millions of members through physical and digital checkpoints with speed and confidence.

This role is more than helping your team ship code—it's about leading engineers to grow, scale, and solve complex real-world problems, while partnering cross-functionally to shape the future of identity verification at CLEAR.

What you'll do:

• Grow and develop engineering talent, creating an environment where team members are empowered, coached, and challenged. You'll lead with clarity, give actionable feedback, and foster career progression through regular mentorship and thoughtful performance management.
• Lead through vision and structure—owning team rituals like sprint planning and roadmap reviews, while staying connected to the why behind our work: making security seamless and trusted for our members.
• Shape strategic direction by working closely with Product, Security, and Operations to translate product needs into technical plans and scalable systems.
• Instill a culture of quality and reliability by emphasizing testing, documentation, observability, and ongoing improvement. You’ll model operational excellence and drive accountability through clear metrics and goals.
• Stay hands-on where it counts, providing architectural guidance, nurturing design thinking, and supporting decision-making through thoughtful risk-benefit tradeoffs.
• Champion CLEAR’s mission of building trust in every interaction—whether that’s a biometric scan at the airport or an identity check in the cloud.

What you're great at:

• You’ve built and scaled engineering teams with empathy, structure, and purpose—and believe in growing people as much as products.
• You have strong communication skills, with a proven ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly and align teams around shared outcomes.
• You have deep technical expertise in building cloud-native, distributed systems, ideally in high-availability or identity/security-critical domains.
• You’ve worked across the software lifecycle—from hands-on coding to architecture reviews to go-to-market launches—and bring a thoughtful systems mindset to your leadership.
• You’re energized by mission-driven work and understand how to align engineering impact with customer experience and regulatory standards.
• Experience working on identity, verification, security products or working within regulated environments is a huge plus.

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.

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.

About CLEAR

Have you ever had that green-light feeling? When you hit every green light and the day just feels like magic. CLEAR's mission is to create frictionless experiences where every day has that feeling. With more than 30+ million passionate members and hundreds of partners around the world, CLEAR’s identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or right on your phone, CLEAR connects you to the things that make you, you - unlocking easier, more secure, and more seamless experiences - making them all feel like magic.