Socure Inc.

Senior Software Engineer - SRE

Socure Inc.$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure
  • Proficient in Terraform for large-scale infrastructure management
  • Strong foundation in Kubernetes internals, networking, and storage
  • Experience with EKS in live production settings
  • Coding skills in Go or Python for automation and maintenance
  • Familiar with CI/CD pipeline construction and operation
  • Understanding of observability concepts and tools like Datadog

Responsibilities

  • Own and manage scalable AWS infrastructure end-to-end
  • Design and improve Kubernetes (EKS) platforms
  • Ensure production system reliability with observability and SLOs
  • Build and maintain CI/CD systems for rapid and safe deployments
  • Define and enforce infrastructure using Terraform and GitOps
  • Conduct incident response and root cause analysis
  • Enhance operational standards through documentation and automation

Benefits

  • Flexible working hours
  • Opportunities for professional development and learning
  • Collaborative and supportive team environment
  • Access to the latest tools and technologies
  • Potential for remote work options
Full Job Description
What You'll Own
  • End-to-end ownership of highly available, scalable AWS infrastructure
  • Design, operation, and continuous improvement of Kubernetes (EKS) platforms
  • Reliability of production systems through strong observability, automation, and SLOs
  • CI/CD systems that enable safe, fast, and repeatable deployments
  • Infrastructure defined and enforced through Terraform and GitOps
  • Incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term remediation
  • Raising operational standards through automation, documentation, and best practices

Technical Requirements:

We're looking for engineers who have actually built, run, and scaled real production systems in the following areas:
Cloud & Infrastructure
  • Deep AWS expertise - networking, compute, IAM, scaling, security
  • Strong experience managing infrastructure using Terraform at scale
Kubernetes & Platform Engineering
  • Very strong Kubernetes fundamentals (internals, scheduling, networking, storage)
  • Hands-on experience operating Amazon EKS in production environments
  • Experience troubleshooting complex, multi-layer Kubernetes issues
Coding & Automation
  • Ability to write clean, maintainable, production-quality code in: Go/ Python
  • Strong automation mindset - eliminating toil through code
CI/CD & GitOps
  • Proven experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines
  • Hands-on experience with:
    • GitHub (Actions or integrations)
    • ArgoCD and GitOps-based deployment workflows
Observability & Reliability
  • Strong understanding of observability principles: metrics, logs, traces, and alerting
  • Hands-on experience with Datadog or similar tool for:
    • Infrastructure and Kubernetes monitoring
    • Application performance monitoring (APM)
    • Alerting, dashboards, and incident detection
  • Experience defining and using SLIs/SLOs to drive reliability decisions

Ability to turn observability data into actionable operational improvements

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About Socure Inc.

Socure is a New York-based technology company that provides digital identity verification services. The company's products use artificial intelligence and machine learning to verify the identities of individuals in real-time. Socure's customers include financial institutions, online marketplaces, and other businesses that need to verify the identities of their users. The company was founded in 2012 by Sunil Madhu and Johnny Ayers and has raised over $70 million in funding to date.
Learn more about Socure Inc.
Size
250 employees
Industry
Founded
2012

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