Senior Platform Engineer - Scale & Reliability (Remote)

Socket; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity program

Health benefits

Flexible time-off

Parental leave

Remote-first with off-sites

Job summary

Socket, a security-focused infrastructure company, seeks an experienced engineer to scale our distributed systems and keep production reliable. You’ll own and evolve the deployment and observability stack while shaping our infrastructure as we grow.

You’ll work with a fast-moving team on policy-driven systems, with a remote-first approach and quarterly team off-sites. This role emphasizes ownership, performance, and cost optimization across the platform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience, including 1+ year in a DevOps or SRE role.
• 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 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)

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Senior DevOps/SRE

Distributed teamwork

TypeScript/NodeJS

Production systems

Cloud platforms

Tools

TypeScript

NodeJS

Postgres

Prometheus/Mimir

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

GCP

GitHub Actions

Job description

Socket, a security-focused infrastructure company, seeks an experienced engineer to scale our distributed systems and keep production reliable. You’ll own and evolve the deployment and observability stack while shaping our infrastructure as we grow.

You’ll work with a fast-moving team on policy-driven systems, with a remote-first approach and quarterly team off-sites. This role emphasizes ownership, performance, and cost optimization across the platform.