Remote Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Description:

• Socure is on a mission to verify 100% of good identities in real time and eliminate identity fraud from the internet.
• The company uses predictive analytics and advanced machine learning trained on billions of signals to power RiskOS™, creating the most accurate identity verification and fraud prevention platform.
• The Staff Backend Engineer will join the Identity Graph team and lead the development of the next-generation Entity Resolution API.
• This role involves working with large-scale data processing, real-time search infrastructure, and machine learning-based ranking systems.
• Responsibilities include designing and building streaming and batch data pipelines for a low-latency Search Cluster (ElasticSearch/Vespa) and developing scalable, cloud-native APIs.
• The engineer will collaborate with Data Science, Infrastructure, and Product teams to design scalable APIs, build robust pipelines, and ensure reliable, observable, and performant distributed systems.
• Key tasks include leading architecture and development of high-performance APIs, implementing data pipelines, maintaining low-latency search APIs, and conducting performance tuning and debugging.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have 8+ years of backend software engineering experience, with at least 1 year in a staff or principal-level role.
• Expertise in search technologies like ElasticSearch or Vespa is required, including deployment, tuning, and query optimization.
• Strong cloud-native experience, particularly with AWS services such as S3, SQS, Lambda, and Kafka, is necessary.
• Proven ability to design, build, and maintain distributed systems that handle high-volume data streams and real-time requirements is essential.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes-based application development and deployment is required.
• Strong proficiency in one or more backend programming languages (Java, Scala, Go, Python, etc.) is necessary.
• Experience in benchmarking and deploying machine learning models into production search pipelines is required.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills are essential.
• Familiarity with SQL/NoSQL and Graph databases is necessary.

Benefits:

• Socure offers a diverse and inclusive work environment, valuing diversity of all kinds.
• The company is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.