Vulnerability Patch Engineer (Rust/Unix) - Remote

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

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity program

Comprehensive health benefits for you

Remote-first with quarterly off-sites

Job summary

Socket is hiring to build and scale patching infrastructure that delivers secure, vetted packages to developers worldwide. You’ll create patches for critical vulnerabilities and scale systems that support the open source ecosystem. Strong Rust/Unix experience and deep API and tooling work are essential.

This remote-first role focuses on CLI engineering, patch workflows, and security-driven development, offering meaningful equity and comprehensive health benefits for a distributed team.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience with production systems.
• Strong proficiency in Rust and Unix/Linux environments.
• Proficiency in Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Experience with package managers (npm, yarn, pnpm) and the JavaScript ecosystem.
• Understanding of software security concepts and vulnerability management; experience building and scaling APIs and data processing pipelines.
• Familiarity with automated testing, CI/CD, and deployment systems.

Responsibilities

• Master Socket workflows, tools, and patching processes.
• Build and maintain CLI tooling used in customer environments.
• Implement package-manager integrations and handle ecosystem-specific edge cases.
• Translate dependency and vulnerability workflows into reliable developer-facing interfaces.
• Debug implementation issues across Unix-based environments.
• Work closely with the patch team to scope work, troubleshoot problems, and ship practical improvements.
• Contribute to frontend experiences using JavaScript, React, and TypeScript.
• Scale patch production to dozens or hundreds of patches per week.
• Build and improve automated patching infrastructure and tooling.
• Build APIs and integrations to deliver certified packages.
• Create tooling for patch quality assurance and testing.
• Work with security researchers to understand and patch critical vulnerabilities.
• Give developers quick, safe remediation options for widely-used packages.
• Help secure the software supply chain for millions of developers.

Skills

Rust

Unix/Linux

Node.js

JavaScript

TypeScript

APIs

Security concepts

CI/CD

Data pipelines

Tools

npm

yarn

pnpm

Job description

Socket is hiring to build and scale patching infrastructure that delivers secure, vetted packages to developers worldwide. You’ll create patches for critical vulnerabilities and scale systems that support the open source ecosystem. Strong Rust/Unix experience and deep API and tooling work are essential.

This remote-first role focuses on CLI engineering, patch workflows, and security-driven development, offering meaningful equity and comprehensive health benefits for a distributed team.