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title: 'Staff Backend Graph Engineer at Socure'
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# Staff Backend Graph Engineer at Socure

- **Company:** [Socure](https://feeny.ai/companies/socure)
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $225k–$250k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-11-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/socure/829a4670-67e4-497b-9544-9a77be69cdaf

## 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.

## About the Job

Build the graph that decides who’s real. Every day, Socure’s Identity Graph helps businesses decide whether to trust the person on the other side of a screen. It links billions of signals (names, addresses, devices, emails, phones) into one picture of identity, and it does this in milliseconds. Fraudsters move fast. The graph has to be faster. As a Staff Engineer on this team, you’ll set the technical direction for the platform behind that decision. You’ll own hard problems end to end, work across Engineering, Data Science, Product, and Security, and see your work shape the products that protect millions of people.

## What You Will Do

- Shape the graph. Define the schemas, relationships, and ontology that make identity data consistent and extensible.
- Own entity resolution at scale. Decide how records, people, devices, and addresses connect, and how confident we are, across data that is messy, sparse, and sometimes adversarial.
- Build for speed and volume. Design batch and real-time pipelines, low-latency APIs, and serving systems that hold up under heavy load.
- Power fraud intelligence. Ship the production systems behind our ML features, model inference, and graph analytics.
- Move the numbers. Improve performance, reliability, and cost, and prove it with measurements.
- Set the direction. Lead architecture decisions, document the tradeoffs, and carry initiatives from first design through production rollout.
- Raise the bar. Mentor engineers and set the standard for design reviews, testing, CI/CD, and operations.
- Protect identity data. Build privacy, security, and PII protection into every system from day one.
- Your toolkit: Java, Scala, or Python. Spark, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, and AWS, including EMR. Graph technologies like Neo4j and Amazon Neptune.

## What You Will Bring

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field
- 7+ years building and running distributed systems in the cloud, with at least 2 at Staff or Senior Staff scope, or the equivalent
- Production scale you can quantify. You can tell us what you built, how big it was, and how much you improved latency, reliability, or cost
- Deep Spark, Kafka, or Flink experience in both batch and streaming, including debugging them in production
- Low-latency serving. You have built and tuned APIs where milliseconds matter
- Graph or entity-resolution experience. You have modeled connected data, matched records across noisy sources, or built an identity graph. Fraud or identity verification is a strong plus
- Cloud and operations fluency. AWS, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and real production observability
- ML data pipelines on Databricks, SageMaker, or similar, plus orchestration with Airflow or equivalent
- Technical leadership. You have led ambiguous, cross-team work, mentored engineers, and changed the direction of a system through design docs and influence, not authority

What This Job is Not

- It’s not a role for someone who hasn’t owned a system end to end in production, including being on call for it.
- It’s not feature work on platforms someone else designed.
- It’s not a defined backlog. You’ll frame ambiguous problems yourself.
- It’s not a place to treat data privacy as a compliance checkbox.

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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## About Socure

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Socure provides an AI-powered platform for digital identity verification, fraud prevention, and risk decisioning, used by enterprises and government agencies to verify consumers, businesses, and employees.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series E)
- **Headquarters**: Incline Village, Nevada, USA
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Johnny Ayers (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Digital Identity Verification, Fraud Prevention, Risk Decisioning, RegTech
- **Target customers**: B2B — primarily Enterprise and Government. Serves financial services (18 of top 20 banks), government agencies (13 U.S. states, 2 federal agencies), gaming/sportsbooks, healthcare, telecom, e-commerce, marketplaces, and fintechs.
- **Mission or purpose**: To verify 100% of good identities and eliminate identity fraud.

## Products & Services
- **RiskOS®**: The company’s core AI platform for identity and risk decisioning. It is a fully vertically integrated platform that allows customers to design, test, and deploy identity, risk, compliance, age assurance, and authentication workflows across the entire customer journey.
- **Predictive Risk Score Solution**: A risk scoring solution that provides real-time fraud protection and decisioning.
- **Effectiv (Acquired)**: An end-to-end identity fraud and payment risk management solution that adds transaction monitoring, credit underwriting, and Know-Your-Business (KYB) capabilities to the Socure platform.
- **FedRAMP Authorized Solution**: A version of the platform authorized for use by U.S. federal government agencies.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (Private company).
- **Key Metric**: Serves over 3,000 customers. The company has access to an identity graph of hundreds of billions of records and over 40 billion historical known outcomes.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors are not explicitly listed on the provided sources, but the customer base includes Capital One, Citi, Chime, SoFi, Lili, Green Dot, Robinhood, Dave, Gusto, Poshmark, Uber, DraftKings, PrizePicks, and the State of California.
- **Growth Signals**: 
    - Achieved **FedRAMP Authorization** in April 2025, a significant milestone for selling to U.S. federal government agencies.
    - Acquired **Effectiv** to expand into payment risk management and credit underwriting.
    - Customer base includes 18 of the top 20 banks and 500+ fintechs.
    - Over 130 public sector organizations as customers.
    - Listed 100 open positions across the company.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertically Integrated Platform**: Socure claims to be the industry’s only fully vertically integrated identity and risk platform, which it says delivers unparalleled auto-approval and fraud capture rates.
- **Massive Data Graph**: Its identity graph of hundreds of billions of records and 40 billion historical outcomes provides a deep data moat that is difficult for competitors to replicate.
- **Breadth of Use Cases**: The platform supports virtually any industry and use case, from workforce verification to prediction markets, making it a versatile partner.
- **Government Authorization**: FedRAMP authorization gives it a unique and defensible position in the public sector market.

## Strategic Focus
- **Government Expansion**: With the recent FedRAMP authorization, a major focus is expanding into federal and state government programs.
- **Platform Expansion**: Integrating the Effectiv acquisition to offer a more comprehensive suite covering identity, payments, and credit risk.
- **AI Innovation**: Continuing to leverage AI on "offense" to keep pace with the fast-moving AI threat landscape (deepfakes, synthetic identity fraud).

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-First Culture**: Socure is a remote-first company with talent hubs in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Washington DC, Miami, London, Chennai, Bangalore, and Hyderabad. Employees have flexibility and autonomy.
- **High-Impact Work**: The company tackles hard problems in digital identity and fraud, which are central to trust in the digital world. The culture emphasizes high performance and purpose.
- **Benefits**: 
    - Market-competitive base salary and performance bonuses.
    - Equity for all full-time employees.
    - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
    - Mental health support.
    - 401(k) with company match.
    - Flexible PTO and generous paid parental leave.
    - Professional development stipend.
    - Work-from-home stipend and Deskpass access for coworking.
    - Hackathons to fuel innovation.
- **Growth & Development**: Internal mobility and career pathing opportunities, access to the latest technology.
- **Team Size**: Approximately 386 total employees (per Built In), with 100 open positions signaling strong growth.

## Sources
1. [socure.com](https://www.socure.com/)
2. [socure.com](https://www.socure.com/company/careers)
3. [socure.com](https://www.socure.com/company)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/socure?source_page=%2Fcompany%2Fcareers)
5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/socure)

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