Senior Backend Engineer - Stateful, Low-Latency Systems

Socket.dev; Tennessee; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, implement, and operate scalable stateful services powering real‑time decisioning and personalization platforms in high‑concurrency, low‑latency environments. You will own state machine architecture, transactional memory, and idempotent, exactly‑once processing, applying AI‑assisted tooling to boost correctness, velocity, and resilience at scale.

Collaborate across platform teams to ensure observability, traceability, and auditable state

Job description

Socket.dev is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, implement, and operate scalable stateful services powering real‑time decisioning and personalization platforms in high‑concurrency, low‑latency environments. You will own state machine architecture, transactional memory, and idempotent, exactly‑once processing, applying AI‑assisted tooling to boost correctness, velocity, and resilience at scale.

Collaborate across platform teams to ensure observability, traceability, and auditable state