Senior Platform Engineer — Infra as a Product

Socket.dev; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev is seeking a senior/staff-level Platform Engineer to own and evolve our AWS infrastructure and internal tooling. You will build scalable CI/CD pipelines, TypeScript libraries, and reliable deployment mechanisms to support rapid product development.

You will work in a remote-first US team, collaborating with product engineers to ship high-quality software, optimize performance, and improve observability across services.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of software engineering with platform/back-end focus.
• Hands-on experience at a high-growth technology startup.
• Proven ability to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and per-PR environments (Buildkite preferred).
• Strong TypeScript and Node.js production codebase navigation.
• Deep AWS expertise across compute, networking, storage, security, and data services.
• Strong Terraform and/or Pulumi skills with CI-driven workflows.
• Experience with SLOs, incident response, and observability.
• Proven track record of shipping production code.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Pulumi across compute, networking, storage, security, and data services.
• Design and maintain internal developer tooling, TypeScript libraries, shared SDKs, code generation, command-line tools, and reusable frameworks.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines in Buildkite and maintain per-pull-request epic environments.
• Improve reliability through service-level objectives, error budgets, autoscaling, observability, and incident response.
• Solve performance and scale challenges across Aurora PostgreSQL, distributed services, and an AI-native mortgage platform.
• Partner with product engineers to make development, testing, and deployment fast, consistent, and safe.
• Document complex systems clearly and raise the technical standard across the engineering organization.

Skills

Software engineering

Platform & backend

CI/CD pipelines

TypeScript / Node.js

AWS expertise

Terraform / Pulumi

Observability

Communication

Tools

Buildkite

Terraform

Pulumi

Datadog

CloudWatch

Sentry

Job description

Socket.dev is seeking a senior/staff-level Platform Engineer to own and evolve our AWS infrastructure and internal tooling. You will build scalable CI/CD pipelines, TypeScript libraries, and reliable deployment mechanisms to support rapid product development.

You will work in a remote-first US team, collaborating with product engineers to ship high-quality software, optimize performance, and improve observability across services.