Senior Platform Engineer

The role

You will own and evolve Socket's infrastructure with a focus on reliability, performance, and cost. You will partner with engineers to debug production issues, design scalable systems, and maintain observability and deployment pipelines.

What you will do

• Partner closely with 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
• Help define and evolve SLIs and SLOs for new and existing systems
• Debug, maintain, and improve the deployment pipeline
• Build and maintain observability across systems including metrics, logs, and traces
• Participate in an on-call rotation
• Drive incident reviews with an emphasis on concrete follow-ups and system improvements

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience
• 1+ year in a DevOps or SRE role
• Comfortable working on a distributed, cross-functional team
• Experience scaling and operating production web applications
• Strong knowledge of relational databases
• 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
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions)

Nice to have

• TypeScript / NodeJS environment
• Postgres
• GCP

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
• Paid parental leave

Before you apply

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

About the company

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.