Senior Platform Engineer

Job Title

Socket helps devs and security teams ship faster by cutting out security busywork. Thousands of orgs use Socket to safely find, audit, and manage open source code. Our customers - from Anthropic to xAI, and Figma to Vercel - love Socket.

Founded by Feross Aboukhadijeh, a long-time open source maintainer with software downloaded over a billion times a month, Socket has raised $ 125M in funding from top angels, operators, and security leaders.

About the Role

Help us scale. Socket ships daily to an ever-growing group of customers. As our customer base grows, we're building features and systems at lightning speed, and we need to ensure that our infrastructure and tooling meets that demand. You'll be critical part of the team that supports this growth.

Grow the team and culture: As an early member of the team, you will form the defining DNA for the company's culture and our future team. Our ability to build a market-defining product is solely dependent on the culture we foster.

Set up foundational frameworks: You'll join at the genesis of something totally new and come into a fast-paced environment. We value process-driven systems that enable us to work smarter as we scale, and you'll build out systems that will serve as guide rails for the engineering team.

What You'll Do

• Partner closely with our engineers to debug production issues, improve performance, and design systems that scale reliably
• Own and evolve Socket's infrastructure, with a focus on reliability, performance, and cost as we scale
• Help define and evolve SLIs and SLOs for new and existing systems, turning reliability into something that can be measured and improved
• Debug, maintain, and improve our deployment pipeline, including addressing failures in production and driving meaningful improvements over time
• Build and maintain observability across our systems (metrics, logs, traces) to support faster detection and resolution of issues
• Participate in an on-call rotation and drive incident reviews with an emphasis on concrete follow-ups and system improvements

What You'll Bring

• 5+ years of software development experience, including 1+ year in a DevOps or SRE role.
• Comfortable working on a distributed, cross-functional team where priorities shift and the problems change day to day
• Experience scaling and operating production web applications, preferably in a TypeScript / NodeJS environment
• Strong knowledge of relational databases, with Postgres preferred
• Hands-on experience building and using observability systems (Prometheus/Mimir, OpenTelemetry, Grafana)
• Experience with container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Practical experience managing infrastructure-as-code with Terraform
• Experience running systems in a cloud environment, with GCP preferred
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions)

Our Interview Process

• Informational with a member from our Talent Team
• Hiring Manager Interview
• Technical Interviews
• Debrief
• Final Interview with Feross
• References
• Decision/Offer

We know how important clarity is when looking for a new role, so we've put together a read-me about the Interview Process at Socket.

Benefits

• Market competitive salary bands
• Meaningful equity program
• Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family (99% coverage)
• Flexible time-off, holidays, and winter shutdown to rest & recharge
• Paid parental leave
• Remote-first, with quarterly team off-sites

At Socket, we

1. Pursue Excellence: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
2. Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
3. Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
4. Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
5. Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
6. Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.