Infrastructure Engineer

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, Dental and Vision coverage

Job summary

Socket.dev in San Francisco is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to own the key services and processes that power our platform, helping set direction for growth. You will contribute to cloud services, CI/CD, incident response, load testing, and developer experience, ensuring fast, reliable systems and guided production readiness.

The role emphasizes collaboration across remote teams, containerized deployments, and security-minded design.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years focused on infrastructure/DevOps/SRE work.
• Experience with AWS and infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, CDK, Pulumi, CloudFormation).
• Practice preparing systems for production use — experience implementing monitoring, autoscaling, and security concerns in live services.
• Proven track record of owning complex systems — e.g. containerized deployments using cloud databases.
• Strong, remote-first, communication skills; able to collaborate across engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own Critical Services: Be responsible for critical services that power our applications, such as the compute and data storage layers powering Forage's payments processing and consumer app API systems.
• Manage CI/CD: Help manage, improve and evolve our CI/CD pipeline, focusing on speed and reliability.
• Improve Incident Response: Help our team reduce noisy alerting by tuning monitor sensitivity and expanding the self-healing/auto-scaling capabilities of our systems. Plan and organize activities to test and evolve how we respond to outages.
• Enhance Developer Experience: Build for both engineers and non-engineers, expanding who can, and wants to, contribute code changes with the adoption of AI agent-led development.

Skills

Remote-first communication

System reliability planning

Incident response planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience

Tools

AWS

Terraform

CDK

Pulumi

CloudFormation

Docker

Monitoring

Autoscaling

Security best practices

Job description

What we are looking for:

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll own the key services and processes that Forage is built on, and will help set the direction for future growth and investments. Beyond cloud services and CI/CD, you’ll contribute to developer experience, our incident response processes, load testing, and other critical functions. Day to day, you’ll spot weak points before they turn into outages, fine-tune databases to keep them fast under load, and put guardrails in place so product engineers can ship quickly.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2+ years focused on infrastructure/DevOps/SRE work.
• Experience with AWS (or another major cloud provider) and infrastructure-as-code tooling (e.g. Terraform, CDK, Pulumi, CloudFormation).
• Practice preparing systems for production use — come with experience implementing monitoring, autoscaling, and security concerns in live services.
• Proven track record of owning complex systems — e.g. containerized deployments using cloud databases.
• Strong, remote-first, communication skills; able to collaborate across engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.
• Nice to have: prior experience in fintech, payments, or other highly regulated environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own Critical Services: Be responsible for critical services that power our applications, such as the compute and data storage layers powering Forage's payments processing and consumer app API systems.
• Manage CI/CD: Help manage, improve and evolve our CI/CD pipeline, focusing on speed and reliability.
• Improve Incident Response: Help our team reduce noisy alerting by tuning monitor sensitivity and expanding the self-healing/auto-scaling capabilities of our systems. Plan and organize activities to test and evolve how we respond to outages.
• Enhance Developer Experience: Build for both engineers and non-engineers, expanding who can, and wants to, contribute code changes with the adoption of AI agent-led development.

Our Offer:

This role is Hybrid in San Francisco, we define hybrid as 2-3 days in office. We will consider remote within North America on a case-by-case basis. Your base salary would fall within the bands below. Please keep in mind that the equity portion of your offer is not included in these numbers and represents a significant part of your total compensation.

• Expected salary range: $160,000 – $180,000 USD base salary
• Meaningful equity
• Meaningful work that makes a positive impact on our society.
• 100% of Medical, Dental and Vision premium coverage for yourself and dependents.
• Enjoy regular team lunches at our San Francisco offices, fostering collaboration and connection over great food.
• A fun and caring environment that prioritizes transparency, growth, and ownership.
• A talented, high-achieving, and humble team with diverse backgrounds and viewpoints.