Staff Backend Graph Engineer

The role

You will set the technical direction for the Identity Graph platform. You will design schemas, own entity resolution at scale, and build batch and real-time pipelines.

What you will do

• Define schemas, relationships, and ontology for identity data.
• Own entity resolution at scale for records, people, devices, and addresses.
• Design batch and real-time pipelines, low-latency APIs, and serving systems.
• Ship production systems for ML features, model inference, and graph analytics.
• Improve performance, reliability, and cost.
• Lead architecture decisions and carry initiatives from design to production.
• Mentor engineers and set standards for design reviews, testing, CI/CD, and operations.
• Build privacy, security, and PII protection into systems.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field
• 7+ years building and running distributed systems in the cloud
• At least 2 years at Staff or Senior Staff scope, or the equivalent
• Experience with production scale including latency, reliability, or cost improvements
• Deep Spark, Kafka, or Flink experience in both batch and streaming
• Experience building and tuning low-latency APIs
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and production observability
• Experience with ML data pipelines on Databricks, SageMaker, or similar, and orchestration with Airflow or equivalent
• Technical leadership of ambiguous, cross-team work and mentoring engineers

Nice to have

• Fraud or identity verification

About the company

Socure is building the identity trust infrastructure for the digital economy by verifying identities in real time and stopping fraud.