Socket · 17 hours ago
Senior Platform Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years expSocket is a company that helps developers and security teams ship faster by reducing security busywork. The Senior Platform Engineer will play a critical role in scaling the company's infrastructure and tooling, ensuring reliability and performance as the customer base grows.
Telecom & CommunicationsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingCyber SecuritySoftwareCloud SecurityDeveloper ToolsInternetOpen SourceSecurity
Responsibilities
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
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
Qualification
Required
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)
Benefits
Market competitive salary bands
Meaningful equity program
Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family
Flexible time-off, holidays, and winter shutdown to rest & recharge
Paid parental leave
Remote-first, with quarterly team off-sites
Company
Socket
Socket is a developer-first security platform that protects your most critical apps from software supply chain attacks.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$64.6MKey Investors
AbstractAndreessen Horowitz
2024-10-22Series B· $40M
2023-08-01Series A· $20M
2022-05-11Seed· $4.6M
Leadership Team
Feross Aboukhadijeh
Founder & CEO
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