United States Remote (Global) Full-time

Socket is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer

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
  • 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

Requirements

  • 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 (99% coverage)
  • Flexible time-off, holidays, and winter shutdown to rest & recharge
  • Paid parental leave
  • Remote-first, with quarterly team off-sites

Work Arrangement

Remote (Worldwide)

Team

Structure: Early member of the team; will help form the defining DNA for the company's culture and future team

Additional Information

  • Participate in an on-call rotation
  • Quarterly team off-sites
About company
Socket
Socket's mission is to help developers and security teams to ship faster and spend less time on security busywork. Thousands of organizations use Socket to safely discover, audit, and manage their open source code.
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Job Details
Department Engineering
Category infrastructure
Posted 4 months ago