Senior Software Engineer -SRE
Role Overview
This senior-level role involves end-to-end ownership of highly available, scalable AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms, with a focus on preventing incidents through automation and observability. The engineer will work on CI/CD systems, incident response, and raising operational standards, impacting the reliability of production systems in a high-pressure environment.
Perks & Benefits
The job is fully remote, likely with flexible time zones, and emphasizes a culture of ownership, critical thinking, and solving customer problems. It offers opportunities for career growth through building mission-critical systems and continuous improvement, with an inclusive, equal-opportunity environment and support for accommodations during hiring.
Full Job Description
Why Socure?
Socure is building the identity trust infrastructure for the digital economy — verifying 100% of good identities in real time and stopping fraud before it starts. The mission is big, the problems are complex, and the impact is felt by businesses, governments, and millions of people every day.
We hire people who want that level of responsibility. People who move fast, think critically, act like owners, and care deeply about solving customer problems with precision. If you want predictability or narrow scope, this won’t be your place. If you want to help build the future of identity with a team that holds a high bar for itself — keep reading.
We are hiring exceptional Site Reliability Engineers who take pride in building and operating mission-critical, production-grade systems. This role is for engineers who own what they build, thrive in high-pressure environments, and continuously raise the reliability and operational bar.
You will work at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, automation, and observability, with a strong focus on preventing incidents rather than reacting to them.
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
Socure is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity in all its forms within our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
If you need an accommodation during any stage of the application or hiring process—including interview or onboarding support—please reach out to your Socure recruiting partner directly.
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