Staff Software Engineer

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

Build product: This role will require you to move fast, prioritize ruthlessly, and be focused on the end user. Your voice will be essential in shaping the product and the roadmap, and your decisions will have immediate and far-reaching impact. You will work in collaboration with the engineering and design teams.

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 design systems that will serve as guide rails for the engineering team.

What You'll Do

• Contribute to the development of the Socket web application end-to-end
• Work with the design team to develop interfaces that abstract away complexities and delivers an elegant and delightful user experience
• Write APIs to deliver data from multiple data sources
• Extract and transform data from 3rd party APIs
• Help shape the roadmap and plan sprints that allow us to quickly deliver features and be agile to user feedback
• Be a key part of hiring, including interviewing and providing input into team growth decisions

What You'll Bring

• You've worked on an early stage team in a 0-1 role and would like to get back to building the foundations again
• Experience with designing and implementing production web applications
• Experience with building and integrating APIs and relational databases like Postgres
• Proficiency with Node.js, JavaScript, React, and TypeScript
• Not bound to a particular tech stack and can learn new technologies on-the-go
• Bonus points for experience with any of the following technologies: GraphQL, ElasticSearch, Headless browsers, data pipelines

Our Interview Process

Informational with a member from our Talent Team
Hiring Manager Interview
Technical Interviews
Debrief
Final Interview with Feross
References
Decision/Offer

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

At Socket, We Pursue Excellence

• Moves with urgency and focus
• Think rigorously
• Value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions
• Trust and amplify
• Feel a strong sense of ownership
• Are customer obsessed