Senior Software Engineer – SRE

Socure

Senior Software Engineer responsible for operating reliable, scalable AWS infrastructures and Kubernetes platforms. Focusing on preventing incidents and implementing automation for enhanced performance.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeCalifornia, New York, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $160,000 - $180,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSGoKubernetesPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

Requirements

What you’ll need

Deep AWS expertise - networking, compute, IAM, scaling, security
Strong experience managing infrastructure using Terraform at scale
Very strong Kubernetes fundamentals (internals, scheduling, networking, storage)
Hands-on experience operating Amazon EKS in production environments
Experience troubleshooting complex, multi-layer Kubernetes issues
Ability to write clean, maintainable, production-quality code in: Go/ Python
Strong automation mindset — eliminating toil through code
Proven experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines
Hands-on experience with GitHub (Actions or integrations)
Hands-on experience with ArgoCD and GitOps-based deployment workflows
Strong understanding of observability principles: metrics, logs, traces, and alerting
Hands-on experience with Datadog or similar tool for infrastructure and Kubernetes monitoring
Experience defining and using SLIs/SLOs to drive reliability decisions

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

AWSKubernetesTerraformGoPythonCI/CDGitOpsArgoCDobservabilitySLIs/SLOs

Soft Skills

automation mindsetincident responseroot cause analysisdocumentationbest practices