Senior Data Engineer, Socure
$160-195k
+ Equity + Bonus
More information about location
Digital ID verification & fraud protection
Be an early applicant
Digital ID verification & fraud protection
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-195k
+ Equity + Bonus
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To verify 100% of good identities in real-time and completely eliminate identity fraud on the internet.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for someone who has a strong passion for solving real business problems with data, and combines deep hands-on data engineering expertise with strong ownership
- 5+ years of hands-on data engineering experience, building and maintaining production-grade data platforms and pipelines
- Strong programming skills in general-purpose language (such as Python or Scala) for data processing, and SQL for data analytics
- Deep experience with distributed data processing frameworks, such as Apache Spark, including performance tuning and optimization
- Proven experience building data solutions using services on AWS (EMR, Lambda, s3, etc)
- Strong understanding of data modeling and data warehousing concepts, including partitioning, schema design for large-scale datasets
- Experience operating and supporting production pipelines, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and improving reliability over time
- Solid foundation in software engineering practices, including version control, CI/CD, testing strategies, and code review
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Desirable
- Experience with streaming or near-real-time data processing (Kafka, Kinesis, etc)
- Hands-on experience with data orchestration tools (Airflow, Step Functions, etc)
- Familiarity with modern data platform patterns such as Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, and large-scale data sharing across teams
- Experience with prompt engineering using modern GenAI, Large Language Models (LLM)
- Experience mentoring other engineers and contributing to engineering-wide standards, best practices
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Data Automation team
- You will play a critical role in designing and building scalable data platforms and pipelines that power Socure’s identity verification products and analytics
- Design and build batch and streaming data pipelines to support automated data ingestion, ML feature engineering and analytics across multiple product domains
- Own end-to-end delivery of complex, ambiguous data initiatives, including architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and documentation
- Develop and evolve the data platform to support large-scale data processing using modern cloud-native technologies
- Automate data operations (validation, quality checks, alerting, backfills, and recovery workflows) to reduce manual effort and improve consistency
- Optimize cost, performance, and reliability of data workloads
- Partner closely with cross-functional teams (Data Science, Product, Engineering) to understand requirements, translate them into technical solutions
- Evaluate and adopt new technologies (new processing engines, storage formats, orchestration tools, GenAI-assisted ingestion) to keep the platform modern and efficient
Our take
Socure is an identity platform that aims to improve customer identification for digital transactions. The company is part of a growing market, with rivals in this competitive space including Signifyd, Riskified, AppsFlyer, ClearSale, Kount, SEON, and Fraud Fighters.
The engine delivered by Socure encompasses Know Your Customer (KYC), identity fraud detection, and document verification. With it, companies can scale rapidly by onboarding more good customers and preventing online fraud. Additionally, underbanked consumers who have been excluded from online services by outdated ID verification can gain access to critical benefits and services online.
Socure has rapidly escalated in popularity and reached a valuation well over $1 billion. Though not immune from the economic downturn of late, which resulted in two high-profile rounds of lay-offs, the company has secured considerable additional funds that will strengthen its financial position as it moves to capitalise on the ever-growing importance of identity verification and trust.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$450m
SERIES E
Mar 2021
$100m
SERIES D
Total funding: $646.6m
Company benefits
- Health: Comprehensive medical coverage, including vision, dental, and FSA
- Parental Leave: Generous leave allowance for parents-to-be
- 401k: Pre-tax savings for retirement
- Life Insurance: Protect your family in case of emergency
- PTO: Take as much time as you need, when you need it
- 100% Remote: Work from anywhere anytime, whatever suits your lifestyle
- WFH Allowance: Generous reimbursement program to maximize your WFH setup
- Deskpass: Work in an office environment whenever you feel the need
- Mental Health Provider: Connect with clinicians when you need it
- Learning & Development: Self-education allowance & free career coaching
- Employee Assistance Program "EAP": Lifestyle resources available as well as additional mental health resources
- Fertility Provider: Family planning solutions for those interested
- Personal Legal Support: Significant discounts with RocketLawyer
Company HQ
Incline Village, NV
Leadership
Johnny Ayers
(Founder & CEO)Founder & General Partner of Switch Hit Ventures. Having been a Senior Consultant at IBM, they became COO and Board Member of Endeavor Up. Since then, was an Advisor at Pager and later founded Socure in 2012.
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