Socket
Senior Platform Engineer
Remote. The employer does not say where candidates may be based.
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Employer listed it 7 months ago · Added yesterday
Been open since 7 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
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Location
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Timezone
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Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Software
This employer didn't state pay. Jobs like this usually pay around $180k–$230k a year, a typical range taken from 596 senior-level software roles on Nomaders that do state pay. It's a guide, not an offer.
Remote flexibility
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The listing is advertised as remote but does not state which countries or regions candidates may work from.
Why this role is Undisclosed
We only label a role Work from anywhere, Region restricted or Work from home when the employer's own wording says so. We checked this advert under our current rules and found no country or region eligibility requirement in it. We don't guess, so it stays Undisclosed until the employer publishes enough location information. Here is exactly what the advert left out.
- Countries you can work from: Not stated. The advert only gives "Remote", which names no country you must live in.
- Whether the work is remote: Never mentioned. The role reached us through a remote job board, but the advert itself doesn't say the work is remote.
- Working hours: Not stated. No timezone overlap or set hours are mentioned, so assume nothing either way.
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What the employer says
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About the role
About Us
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 to see for yourself!)
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)
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)
Benefits
- ·Flexible time-off, holidays, and winter shutdown to rest & recharge
- ·Paid parental leave
- ·Remote-first, with quarterly team off-sites
- ·Pursue Excellence: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
- ·Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, undisclosed, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Socket, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 1d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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