Socket
Senior Platform Engineer
AMER · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 159 days ago
TypeScriptSwiftNode.jsRailsGitPostgreSQLGCPCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDGitHub ActionsPrometheusGrafanaDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringRESTFigmaDesign Systems
About the role
- Socket ships daily to an ever-growing group of customers.
- 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.
- Set up foundational frameworks: You'll join at the genesis of something totally new and come into a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
- Hands-on experience building and using observability systems (Prometheus/Mimir, OpenTelemetry, Grafana)
Requirements
- Experience with container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Nice to have
- Strong knowledge of relational databases, with Postgres preferred
Compensation
- Market competitive salary bands
Benefits
- Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work.
- 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
Company info
- 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 (just check out their tweets https://socket.dev/love to see for yourself!)
- Founded by Feross Aboukhadijeh https://www.linkedin.com/in/feross/, a long-time open source maintainer with software downloaded over a billion times a month, Socket has raised $ https://socket.dev/blog/series-b125M in funding https://socket.dev/blog/series-c from top angels, operators, and security leaders.
- 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 (just check out their tweets https://socket.dev/love to see for yourself!)
- 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.
- We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
- We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
- Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
This listing is sourced directly from Socket's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.