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.
Socket is on the hunt for an energetic Sales Development Representative to bolster our team. Your primary role will be to bridge the gap between our sales team and potential clients, sparking interest and initiating conversations about our security tool.
Be the first point of contact for new business prospects and determine the next steps for each prospect moving forward.
Establish active communication and engagement with prospects to create new leads and sales openings.
Collaborate with the sales team to design and execute industry-specific outreach strategies.
Present our product to potential clients, highlighting how our services can address their specific needs.
Maintain a self-starter attitude while creating outreach strategies for new lead generation methods.
Anticipate needs by studying services and conducting market research to identify new leads.
1+ years of sales experience, preferably in a sales development role within the security industry.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to engage and excite potential clients about our product.
Self-motivated and extremely ambitious, with a drive to achieve sales targets.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and to use problem-solving skills to overcome any challenges.
Experience using CRM software to track and analyze sales data.
Knowledge of open source software and/or software development.
Familiarity with Socket's products and services.
Previous experience working in a fast-growing startup environment.
Our Interview Process:
Phone Screen with our Talent Team (30)
Virtual f2f with the Hiring Manager (30)
Virtual f2f Mock Interview & Peer Interview (90)
Virtual f2f with our Head of Sales (30)
Debrief
Final call with our Founder (30)
References
Decision/Offer
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
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: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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
We are looking for a driven Enterprise Account Executive to join our dynamic and highly-experienced sales team at Socket. In this role, you'll drive our go-to-market strategy by managing the full sales cycle and working to build relationships with Security teams across enterprise organizations. You’ll have the opportunity to make a significant impact in shaping the future of our product, selling process and success in the Enterprise market.
What You'll Do
Meet and exceed revenue targets by working closely with enterprise organizations (>2,000 employees) Security teams.
Supplement inbound leads with self-generated outbound strategies for pipeline generation.
Develop innovative and repeatable sales strategies to drive opportunities and revenue.
Create an unparalleled customer experience throughout the sales life cycle.
Manage existing customer relationships to drive renewal and upsell opportunities.
Work cross-functionally across our go-to-market team as well as with partner organizations to drive strategic growth opportunities.
What You'll Bring
7 plus years of experience in an Enterprise Sales role for B2B SaaS solutions.
Experience selling in the cybersecurity (or related) industry.
Proven track record of meeting or exceeding sales quotas.
Measurable success in building and managing a qualified pipeline and a self-driven, hunter mindset.
An understanding of how to drive success in an early stage, fast-paced environment and take ownership to get the task done.
A collaborative mindset and the ability to build meaningful relationships throughout the sales process.
Strong written and verbal communication and experience communicating at every level including the C-Suite.
An aptitude to take on new projects outside the normal scope of the day to day role as needed.
The best candidates for Socket are talented, hard working, competitive, and not afraid to fail. They are team first but willing to take the lead with minimal guidance and supervision.
Willingness to travel for customer and company meetings as needed.
Our Interview Process
Informational call with someone from our Talent team
Virtual f2f with the Hiring Manager
Presentation phase
Internal Debrief
Final call with our Founder
References
Decision / Offer
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
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: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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
Socket is looking for a Sales Engineer to support our enterprise customers. In this role you will be at the nexus between our customers and our engineering, product, and design teams. You'll work cross-functionally in order to provide technical education, guidance, and support in a pre-sales capacity.
What You'll Do
Lead discussions and product demonstrations to showcase capabilities; address customer challenges, respond to questions, and handle objections.
Craft technical content to guide customers in implementing specific use cases or extending our solution.
Collaborate with account teams to understand customer requirements and translate them to Socket capabilities, emphasizing business value.
Support Proof of Concepts (POCs) that align with customer requirements; provide technical expertise, troubleshooting, and guidance throughout the evaluation process.
Provide guidance on integrating solutions into the customer's existing infrastructure.
Distill and communicate customer needs and product feedback to Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales.
Collaborate with Customer Success to drive post-sales revenue, ensure retention, and contribute to growth.
Execute cross-functional projects involving teams such as Engineering, Sales, and Marketing.
What You'll Bring
Required:
7 plus years of pre-sales experience in a Sales Engineering or Solutions Engineering role.
Hands-on experience working with enterprise customers in the security or technical SaaS space.
Ability to multitask and efficiently handle multiple competing priorities, delegating when necessary while being highly organized, detail oriented, and demonstrating excellent time management skills.
Empathetic mindset for the customer and a commitment to delving deep into the challenges they present or experience.
Ability to work cross-functionally and contribute directly to Sales, Product and Engineering teams.
Ability and desire to learn new tools and technologies.
Familiarity with web APIs, SDKs, and other technical frameworks is a plus.
Experience with open source, vulnerability management / SCA
Must be able to read/write basic scripts in languages Python, JS, or Golang.
Knowledge of common source control managers such as gitlab or bitbucket.
Preferred:
CS degree or equivalent industry experience.
Hands on experience working with medium to large customers up to 1000 employees.
Relevant security domain experience and familiarity with vulnerability management SCA tools.
Experience with AI and Large Language Models (LLM)
Our Interview Process
Phone Screen with our Talent Team
Virtual f2f with the Hiring Manager
Virtual f2f with a few members of the team
Presentation
Final call with our Founder
Debrief
References
Offer
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
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: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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
We're looking for a high-performing Python focused Forward Deployed Engineer to serve as the technical bridge between Socket's enterprise customers and our engineering teams. In this role, you'll combine your software development expertise with exceptional customer skills to drive successful implementations, write custom code, and build the foundation for our professional services offering. You'll play a critical role in ensuring our largest customers achieve maximum value from Socket's security platform while helping shape the future of our technical services.
This role is remote with 20-30% travel required for customer onsite engagements.
What You'll Do
Serve as the primary technical advisor and trusted expert for 5-8 enterprise accounts.
Write custom code, scripts, and integrations to solve complex customer implementation challenges.
Lead technical onboarding sessions, training workshops, and hands-on implementation guidance.
Develop custom SAST rules, CVE rules, and security policies tailored to customer environments.
Coordinate seamless technical rollouts and integrations across complex enterprise environments.
Build and maintain strong relationships with customer engineering teams and security stakeholders.
Create standardized technical documentation, best practices guides, and reusable implementation playbooks.
Facilitate communication between customers and internal product teams, translating feedback into actionable insights.
Conduct on-site technical engagements including security assessments, alert optimization, and advanced configuration.
Review and optimize customer alert configurations, reducing noise and improving security coverage.
Anticipate technical challenges and proactively develop solutions that drive product adoption and customer success.
Support the development of billable professional services offerings and advanced technical consulting.
What You'll Bring
5+ years of software development experience with strong coding skills in Python.
Proven track record building integrations, APIs, webhook implementations, and automation scripts in production environments.
Exceptional communication and presentation skills with natural ability to explain complex technical concepts.
A customer-first mindset — you genuinely enjoy solving problems for clients and building lasting relationships.
Strong understanding of modern development workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps practices.
Knowledge of security tools, vulnerability management, and software composition analysis preferred.
Experience with open source ecosystems and supply chain security concepts.
Comfortable with travel and on-site customer engagements as the face of Socket's technical expertise.
Experience with scripting and automation for DevOps or security use cases.
Our Interview Process
Informational with a member of our Talent Team
Virtual f2f with the Hiring Manager
Virtual f2f with a Peer
Take-home problem & brief presentation of your work
Internal Debrief
Final Interview with our CEO, Feross
References
Decision/Offer
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
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: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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
Socket is looking for a Sales Engineer to support our commercial customers. In this role you will be at the nexus between our customers and our engineering, product, and design teams. You'll work cross-functionally in order to provide technical education, guidance, and support in a pre-sales capacity.
What You'll Do
Lead discussions and product demonstrations to showcase capabilities; address customer challenges, respond to questions, and handle objections.
Craft technical content to guide customers in implementing specific use cases or extending our solution.
Collaborate with account teams to understand customer requirements and translate them to Socket capabilities, emphasizing business value.
Support Proof of Concepts (POCs) that align with customer requirements; provide technical expertise, troubleshooting, and guidance throughout the evaluation process.
Provide guidance on integrating solutions into the customer's existing infrastructure.
Distill and communicate customer needs and product feedback to Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales.
Collaborate with Customer Success to drive post-sales revenue, ensure retention, and contribute to growth.
Execute cross-functional projects involving teams such as Engineering, Sales, and Marketing.
What You'll Bring
5+ years in pre-sales technical roles (Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Solutions Architect, TAM) with commercial customers
Prior experience in security, developer tools, or SaaS environments
Hands-on technical background: prior software engineering, data science, or equivalent role
Deep familiarity with package managers (at least one of npm or PyPI) and programming ecosystems (at least one of JavaScript or Python)
Understanding of software supply chain security and vulnerability management concepts
Ability to read/write basic scripts in Python, JS, or Go
Knowledge of source control systems (Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket)
RESTful API and integration experience
Our Interview Process
Phone Screen with our Talent Team
Virtual f2f with the Hiring Manager
Virtual f2f with members of our Sales Team
Presentation
Final call with our Founder
Debrief
References
Offer
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
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: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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
We're seeking a Sales Engineer, EMEA to lead Socket's growth in Europe. This is a unique hybrid role combining pre-sales technical expertise with post-sale customer success ownership. You'll be the bridge between prospects evaluating Socket and existing customers expanding their usage, driving both deal closure and long-term customer outcomes.
What You’ll Do
Pre-Sales & Demos:
Lead technical discussions and product demonstrations tailored to prospect needs
Design and execute proofs of concept (POCs) that enable prospects to evaluate Socket effectively
Address technical objections, troubleshoot issues, and build customer confidence
Translate Socket's capabilities into business value for security and engineering teams
Post-Sales & Growth:
Own the success and growth of assigned European enterprise accounts
Create and execute success plans aligned to customer goals with clear KPIs
Drive feature adoption and expansion opportunities across the customer base
Conduct quarterly business reviews and renewal discussions
Escalate customer feedback to product and engineering teams
Cross-Functional Partnership:
Collaborate with Sales, Product, Engineering, and CS teams to understand customer needs
Contribute to scalable processes and playbooks for European enterprise accounts
Provide strategic feedback on market needs and feature requests
Support the creation of technical documentation and integration guides
What You'll Bring
5+ years in pre-sales technical roles (Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Solutions Architect, TAM) with enterprise customers
2+ years of experience in customer success, account management, or post-sale technical roles
Prior experience in security, developer tools, or SaaS environments
Hands-on technical background: prior software engineering, data science, or equivalent role
Deep familiarity with package managers (at least one of npm or PyPI) and programming ecosystems (at least one of JavaScript or Python)
Understanding of software supply chain security and vulnerability management concepts
Ability to read/write basic scripts in Python, JS, or Go
Knowledge of source control systems (Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket)
RESTful API and integration experience
Our Interview Process
Phone Screen with our Talent Team
Virtual f2f with the Hiring Manager
Virtual f2f with members of our Sales Team
Presentation
Final call with our Founder
Debrief
References
Offer
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
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: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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
Socket is looking for a Threat Researcher to join our growing Threat Intelligence Team. In this role, you’ll tackle cutting-edge threats in the software supply chain, leveraging our proprietary AI-based scanner and building tools to enhance malware analysis. You’ll secure open source ecosystems, strengthen threat detection across multiple programming languages, and conduct research that helps protect developers and organizations worldwide. This is not an entry-level position. This is a hands-on role for someone passionate about threat hunting, security research, automation, and turning insights into actionable defenses.
What You'll Do
Analyze numerous unique threats daily, maintaining a standard of quality that sets the industry benchmark for supply chain security.
Author high-impact technical blog posts on malicious open source code packages and extensions, and publish deep-dive research pieces on malicious campaigns, threat actor profiles, novel attack vectors, and ecosystem-wide trends.
Design and build automated scripts and tools to streamline malware analysis, enhancing our data collection, threat analysis, and threat hunting workflows.
Partner with our engineering team to integrate your research into our core product, turning manual insights into scalable, real-time protection.
Leverage expertise in open source software ecosystems to enhance security across package registries, browser extensions (Chrome/VS Code), and proactively monitor GitHub/GitLab for emerging malicious campaigns.
Track APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) adversaries, characterizing various TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures), capabilities, infrastructure, and campaigns.
What You'll Bring
Required:
3+ years of work experience and a master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
Technical experience across several areas of security operations, including investigations, incident response and management, digital forensics, malware analysis, reverse engineering, threat intelligence, threat hunting, and detection engineering.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to assess the relevance and impact of threats.
Experience building tools for automation, data collection, and threat hunting.
Passion for open source and code.
Preferred:
Familiarity with TypeScript/JavaScript and/or other programming languages and ecosystems protected by Socket.
Experience leveraging LLMs or AI-based tools for threat detection.
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
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: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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
Help us scale. Socket ships daily to an ever-growing group of customers. As our customer base grows, we’re building features and systems at lightning speed, and we need to ensure that our infrastructure and tooling meets that demand. You’ll be critical part of the team that supports this growth.
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 systems that will serve as guide rails for the engineering team.
What You'll Do
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
What You'll Bring
5+ years of software development experience, including 1+ year in a DevOps or SRE role.
Comfortable working on a distributed, cross-functional team where priorities shift and the problems change day to day
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 and using 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)
Our Interview Process
Informational with a member from our Talent Team
Hiring Manager Interview
Technical Interviews
Debrief
Final Interview with Feross
References
Decision/Offer
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
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: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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.
A Letter From Our Founder & CEO: We've built something rare at Socket. A 40-person engineering team that moves with velocity and keeps a high bar on what ships. We don't have the usual dysfunction that plagues fast-growing companies. What we do have is clarity about the problem we're solving, alignment on what matters, and people who care about doing work that actually protects the software supply chain.
Now we're at an interesting inflection point. We need to double the engineering organization while keeping everything that made us fast. That's the core problem: how do you stay fast and maintain code quality and culture while you scale from 40 to 80+ engineers?
The best engineering organizations don't scale because they hire more of the right people. They scale because they've designed how decisions get made, how work gets prioritized, how teams coordinate without creating meetings overhead, how people get unblocked. The operating system is the difference between a team that grows and a team that fractures under its own weight.
Socket has a strong technical leadership team. What we're missing is someone who owns the operating system. Someone who looks at how we're currently shipping things and says \"this works for 40 people, but it won't work for 80, and here's what we need to change. Someone who understands that keeping engineers happy and keeping the product moving fast are the same problem, not competing problems.
This role is about protecting what we've built while scaling it. It's about designing planning processes and team structure and decision-making rhythms that are lightweight enough to stay fast and rigorous enough that dependencies surface before they become problems. It's about identifying the engineering leaders who can own their domains and then creating the conditions where they can do their best work.
You'll spend about two-thirds of your time on operations and people leadership. The other third stays hands-on technical. Not because we need more code reviewed, but because your technical credibility determines whether people actually trust your leadership on the hard calls.
You work directly with me. The decisions you make about how the team operates will shape Socket for the next three years. This is partnership, not delegation.
If you've scaled an engineering organization before, if you understand that how you build is as important as what you build, and if you want to work on something that actually matters, let's talk.
What You'll Do
Scale the engineering organization from 40 to 80+ people while protecting the velocity, code quality, and culture that makes Socket work. Own two intertwined responsibilities: be the operational leader who keeps the organization unblocked and coordinated, AND be the technical leader who shapes architecture decisions and keeps the team executing with urgency.
Design an operating system that actually works. Build planning cadence, sprint structure, and decision-making processes that are lightweight enough to stay fast and rigorous enough to catch risks early. Document how Socket makes decisions so new engineers understand the culture, not just the rules. The best operating systems don't feel like bureaucracy. They feel like clarity.
Build technical leadership across the organization. Create weekly coordination rhythms so teams sync proactively. Define clear growth paths so engineers know how to advance.
Eliminate operational friction. Identify the five biggest bottlenecks slowing the team down. By month six, those problems should be solved and measurable. This might be unclear prioritization, dependencies discovered mid-sprint, code review bottlenecks, unnecessary meetings, or context switching that kills focus.
Own delivery on major cross-team initiatives. Define what success looks like, track progress weekly, manage dependencies, escalate risks early.
Keep hands-on technical credibility. Staying close to the code, architecture decisions, mentoring leads, unblocking hard problems. This is not negotiable. Your technical credibility determines whether the team respects your leadership. You need one foot in the code so you make better trade-off decisions.
Partner on technical strategy. Help articulate where Socket's architecture is heading. Create lightweight architecture review processes so major decisions are coordinated and informed, not siloed.
Establish culture and feedback loops that scale. Run skip-level 1-on-1s to understand what's actually blocking people. Institute monthly retrospectives so the team learns from each other's wins and failures. Build a feedback culture where code review is learning and where architecture reviews strengthen decisions instead of slowing them down.
What You'll Bring
You've scaled an engineering organization up to 100 people. You remember exactly what broke along the way and how you fixed it. You can articulate what \"good\" looks like at each scale and why the things that worked at 40 people stop working at 100.
You've built and executed operating systems for large organizations. You can walk through your planning process, how you manage dependencies, your sprint cycle, and how you surface risks. You build structure without creating bureaucracy.
Deep hands-on technical depth. You code regularly. You can have sophisticated conversations about architecture, distributed systems, and trade-offs. You can explain a major technical decision you made and whether you'd make it again. You're not afraid to challenge engineers on design.
You've managed complex cross-functional programs. You have concrete examples of coordinating 4+ teams on major initiatives. You surface dependencies upfront, handle conflicts thoughtfully, and keep complex programs on track.
A track record of moving fast and shipping. You can point to the biggest things you've shipped in the last year: how long they took, how many people, what the impact was. You optimize for speed without sacrificing quality.
You work exceptionally well with founders and hands-on leadership. You push back thoughtfully when you disagree. You complement our strengths. You don't need to be the smartest person in the room; you need to make the smartest people on your team better.
Experience with security or supply chain security is a plus. You've shipped security features or worked on infrastructure security. You understand why this problem matters.
You care about culture as much as you care about execution. You believe that how you build is as important as what you build.
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
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: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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
As Socket's first dedicated Channel & Partnerships hire, you'll build our partner ecosystem from the ground up and establish strategic relationships that amplify our reach in the CISO and AppSec space. You'll help security teams and organizations discover Socket through trusted partners while creating scalable revenue channels that complement our direct sales efforts. This is a high-ownership role where you'll work directly with Socket's leadership team to drive mutual success for Socket, our partners, and our customers.
What You'll Do
Manage Strategic Security Partner Relationships: Build and lead Socket's alliances with key security consulting firms, system integrators, and technology vendors. Create long-term value through strong executive engagement and multi-level stakeholder relationships.
Create & Execute Partnership Strategies: Build and implement annual partner plans with specific revenue targets, key milestones, and success metrics. Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure partnerships deliver measurable business impact.
Build and Launch Channel Sales Motions: Create joint go-to-market strategies that capitalize on supply chain security trends, partner strengths, and market opportunities within security ecosystems to accelerate revenue growth.
Cultivate Executive-Level Partnerships: Establish and maintain trusted C-level relationships between Socket and security ecosystem partners, serving as a strategic liaison and business connector.
Drive Sales & Partner Enablement: Orchestrate internal training and partner field support, ensuring Socket's sales teams and partner organizations understand how to position and sell joint security solutions effectively.
Execute Co-Marketing & Pipeline Generation: Partner with marketing teams to deliver high-impact co-branded initiatives, security events, and content strategies that build pipeline and enhance market presence.
Conduct Partnership Performance Reviews: Run comprehensive business reviews with partners to assess progress, analyze key metrics, and identify data-driven opportunities for growth and optimization.
What You'll Bring
6+ years of experience in Channel Sales, Partnership Management, or Business Development, with strong preference for security, AppSec, or enterprise software backgrounds selling into CISO and security organizations.
Deep knowledge of enterprise security ecosystems, including understanding how security consultancies, managed services providers, and system integrators serve enterprise clients and position security solutions.
Strong security domain knowledge; ability to engage confidently with security executives and technical teams about supply chain risks, vulnerability management, and enterprise security strategies.
Proven track record in relationship development with experience navigating complex security organizations and driving cross-functional alignment in consulting and enterprise settings.
Strategic mindset with the ability to translate partnership vision into revenue execution while being hands-on with deal closure and partner success initiatives.
Experienced dealmaker with demonstrated success in end-to-end partner negotiations, including agreements, service level commitments, and revenue structures.
Strong executive communicator with confident presentation skills and experience engaging CISO-level decision makers and security leadership teams.
Revenue-focused mindset with proven ability to build channel programs, drive partner-generated revenue, and identify opportunities that create mutual value across partnerships.
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
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: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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.
Socket is looking for a Sales Engineer to support our SMB Clients. In this role you will be at the nexus between our customers and our engineering, product, and design teams. You'll work cross-functionally in order to provide technical education, guidance, and support in a pre-sales capacity.
What You’ll Do:
Lead discussions and product demonstrations to showcase capabilities; address customer challenges, respond to questions, and handle objections.
Craft technical content to guide customers in implementing specific use cases or extending our solution.
Collaborate with account teams to understand customer requirements and translate them to Socket capabilities, emphasizing business value.
Support Proof of Concepts (POCs) that align with customer requirements; provide technical expertise, troubleshooting, and guidance throughout the evaluation process.
Provide guidance on integrating solutions into the customer's existing infrastructure.
Distill and communicate customer needs and product feedback to Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales.
Collaborate with Customer Success to drive post-sales revenue, ensure retention, and contribute to growth.
Execute cross-functional projects involving teams such as Engineering, Sales, and Marketing.
What You'll Bring
Prior technical experience in roles like Software Development, TAM, Solutions Architect, Product Support, etc
Hands-on experience working in customer facing roles.
Ability to multitask and efficiently handle multiple competing priorities, delegating when necessary while being highly organized, detail oriented, and demonstrating excellent time management skills.
Empathetic mindset for the customer and a commitment to delving deep into the challenges they present or experience.
Ability to work cross-functionally and contribute directly to Sales, Product and Engineering teams.
Ability and desire to learn new tools and technologies.
Familiarity with web APIs, SDKs, and other technical frameworks is a plus.
Must be able to read/write basic scripts in languages Python, JS, or Golang.
Knowledge of common source control managers such as gitlab or bitbucket.
Nice to Haves:
CS degree or equivalent industry experience.
Experience with open source, vulnerability management / SCA
Hands on experience working with medium to large customers up to 1000 employees.
Relevant security domain experience and familiarity with vulnerability management SCA tools.
Experience with AI and Large Language Models (LLM)
Our Interview Process
Phone Screen with our Talent Team
Virtual f2f with the Hiring Manager
Virtual f2f with a few members of the team
Presentation
Call with our VP of Customer Engineering
Final call with our Founder
References
Offer
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
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: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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.
We’re looking for a hands-on Manager of Commercial Sales to lead a growing team of Account Executives.
This is a role where you’ll be close to the business every day. You’ll be in deals, in pipeline reviews, and in 1:1s with reps making sure everyone is set up to perform. The goal is simple: a team that consistently hits number with clean pipeline and clear execution.
We’re a high-performing group today, and your job is to help take that to the next level by improving consistency, tightening execution, and making sure we always have a clear read on the business.
You’ll coach reps directly, stay close to how deals are progressing, and help remove friction where things slow down. You’ll also partner closely with Marketing, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, and Ops to make sure the team is supported and aligned.
Lead and coach a team of 7-8 Account Executives
Own team performance, including quota attainment and forecast accuracy
Run a tight weekly rhythm across pipeline reviews, forecasting, and deal inspection
Make sure reps are consistently building pipeline and staying disciplined on outbound
Stay close to deals and help reps improve execution from first conversation to close
Work with Marketing, SEs, and CS to make sure pipeline generation and conversion are strong
Help shape target account focus based on what is actually converting, not just what looks good on paper
Use HubSpot, Gong, and Outreach to keep real visibility into pipeline and rep activity
Coach reps directly and raise the bar on how the team executes day to day
4+ years in B2B SaaS sales
2+ years leading and coaching Account Executives, preferred
Track record of hitting and beating quota, ideally through a team
Experience in fast-moving, outbound-heavy sales environments
Comfortable coaching in short sales cycles where speed and discipline matter
Experience selling into technical buyers is a plus (DevOps, Security, or infra teams)
Strong HubSpot experience (Outreach and other tools a plus)
You know how to improve rep performance, not just track it
You’re comfortable being close to the details while still leading the team
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
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: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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.
We’re hiring for our very first Tech Partnerships role at Socket! Your mission is to build Socket’s technology partner ecosystem from zero to a repeatable, revenue-producing program. Over the next 12–18 months, you’ll establish deep technical integrations and partnerships that expand Socket’s reach in the enterprise AppSec and supply chain security ecosystem.
What you'll do:
Build Socket’s Technical Partnership & Integration Ecosystem: Identify, prioritize, and manage partnerships with developer and infrastructure platforms.. Ensure integrations create meaningful value for shared users and strengthen Socket’s position in the software supply chain.
Own Technical Partnership Lifecycle: Drive all stages of the technical partnership process from discovery and scoping to integration design, joint testing, documentation, and go-to-market enablement. Work closely with Socket’s product and engineering teams to translate partner opportunities into shipped product integrations.
Launch and Maintain Technical Integrations: Define the integration roadmap and work with internal and external engineers to ensure partner integrations are reliable, secure, and developer-friendly. Establish metrics for adoption, performance, and partner-driven usage growth.
Collaborate with Product and GTM Teams: Align partnership priorities with Socket’s product roadmap and revenue strategy. Enable the sales and marketing teams with technical knowledge, documentation, and partner assets that make integrations easy to adopt and position.
Develop Strategic Technology Alliances: Forge long-term relationships with technical and product leaders across the ecosystem. Identify opportunities for co-development, API collaboration, and shared innovation around developer experience and security automation.
Measure and Report Partnership Impact: Track integration adoption, developer engagement, and pipeline influence. Use these insights to inform prioritization, optimize technical outcomes, and guide future partnership investments.
About You:
10+ years in Technical Partnerships, Product Partnerships, or Technical Business Development in developer tools, security, or infrastructure software.
Strong understanding of modern development environments & ecosystems, CI/CD systems, and API-based integrations.
Proven track record of driving product partnerships that resulted in real integrations, adoption growth, or joint go-to-market success.
Capable of reading and communicating technical concepts (APIs, SDKs, webhooks, CI/CD flows) while collaborating with engineering teams.
Ability to rapidly prototype technical integrations, use-cases, and translate to product specs
Experience structuring and negotiating partnership agreements that balance technical scope with business outcomes.
Excellent communicator, comfortable engaging product, engineering, and executive audiences across organizations.
Strategic operator who can think in systems but execute tactically to bring integrations live.
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
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: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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.
In this role, you'll help build and scale Socket's EMEA business by owning the full sales cycle across mid-market and enterprise accounts. You'll partner closely with security, engineering, and executive stakeholders while helping shape our regional go-to-market strategy, sales process, and customer expansion efforts.
What You'll Do
Meet and exceed revenue targets across mid-market and enterprise organizations throughout EMEA.
Build and manage a healthy pipeline through a combination of inbound demand, outbound prospecting, partner relationships, and customer referrals.
Own opportunities ranging from fast-moving commercial transactions to complex multi-stakeholder enterprise sales cycles.
Create an unparalleled customer experience throughout the sales life cycle.
Partner with Customer Success to drive customer expansion, strategic account growth, and long-term customer success.
Partner with the EMEA leadership to establish repeatable processes, local market strategy, and best practices as we scale the region.
Provide market feedback to Product, Marketing, and Leadership teams to influence roadmap and go-to-market decisions.
What You'll Bring
5+ years of experience selling B2B SaaS solutions.
Experience selling to security leaders, engineering leaders, platform teams, or developer-focused organizations.
Curiosity about software development, open source, cloud infrastructure, and modern security practices.
Proven track record of meeting or exceeding sales quotas.
Demonstrated success building pipeline in new or developing territories through a combination of outbound prospecting, partner engagement, and relationship-driven selling.
Experience operating in an early-stage or high-growth environment where processes, messaging, and strategy are still evolving.
Experience navigating a variety of deal sizes and sales motions, from transactional commercial opportunities to complex enterprise procurement processes.
A collaborative mindset and the ability to build meaningful relationships throughout the sales process.
Strong written and verbal communication and experience communicating at every level including the C-Suite.
The best candidates for Socket are talented, hard working, competitive, and not afraid to fail. They are team first but willing to take the lead with minimal guidance and supervision.
Willingness to travel for customer and company meetings as needed.
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
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: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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.
We're hiring an Engineering Manager to help lead our engineering team as we scale.
In this role, you'll work closely with engineers on technical challenges while helping the team navigate ambiguity, make thoughtful decisions, and deliver with speed and quality. Rather than directing every solution, you'll facilitate productive technical discussions, build alignment, and create the conditions for our engineers to do their best work.
We're looking for someone who can think strategically, stay close enough to the technical work to understand trade-offs, ask good questions, and help guide technical decisions, while leading through influence rather than authority. You'll help the team balance long-term technical investments with near-term execution, maintain a high bar for engineering quality, and create the clarity and alignment that enables engineers to move quickly without sacrificing thoughtful decision-making.
Lead and grow a high-performing team of engineers by building a culture of trust, ownership, and autonomy where people can do their best work, make decisions, and continue to develop.
Partner closely with engineering and go-to-market stakeholders to ensure the team is solving the right problems - not just building the right solutions.
Stay engaged with technical decisions, helping the team reason through architecture, trade-offs, and complexity, without needing to make every decision yourself.
Improve the process of how we work, identifying bottlenecks, refining processes, and automating away toil.
Bring clarity to ambiguous problems by helping the team align on priorities, make thoughtful decisions, and maintain strong execution.
Balance long-term technical investments with near-term business needs, ensuring the team delivers sustainable, high-quality outcomes.
Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement where engineers are empowered to lead and make decisions.
Experience leading engineering teams in a fast-moving environment where priorities and solutions are not always clearly defined.
Instinct to step toward ambiguous or unowned problems, including the unglamorous seams between teams.
Strong technical judgment and the ability to engage deeply in architectural discussions, understand trade-offs, and guide technical decisions.
Comfort working in a TypeScript/JavaScript ecosystem is a plus, though we value strong engineering fundamentals over experience with a specific language or framework.
Strong product sense: able to talk directly to customers, absorb inputs from many sources, and determine how a product should work.
Communication that keeps other teams informed on your team’s goals, needs, and progress, and that provides your team with enough context to make good decisions even if you aren’t in the room.
Experience managing in a remote environment, ideally with a globally-distributed team.
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
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: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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.
Socket is hiring a Social Media Manager to own our presence across every platform where developers and security practitioners are paying attention. We want someone who runs our channels like a product: watching metrics and trends closely, and changing course fast when something isn't landing.
The role requires solid video and audio editing skill and narrative discipline. We build stories across weeks and campaigns, not single disconnected posts. It requires exceptional command of meme culture and internet humor, applied correctly and distinctly across each platform we operate on. And it requires being AI native: using modern AI tools by default to amplify your own creativity and push the boundaries of what technical content can look like. A portfolio showcasing your content, editing, and storytelling work is required as part of your application.
Experience in DevRel, technical marketing, or a technical newsroom is a bonus. Prior full ownership of a content calendar, solo, is also a bonus.
Own the Platforms
Manage Socket's presence across every platform in our mix, and help identify where we should expand next
Track performance metrics and platform trends on an ongoing basis, and adapt content and strategy based on what the data shows
Keep Socket present and timely in fast-moving developer conversations and trends as they happen
Produce the Content
Slice long-form podcasts, webinars, and interviews into high-impact 30 to 60 second clips
Edit and optimize clips for each platform with captions, dynamic cuts, and visual hooks
Turn technical blog posts and product updates into carousels, memes, and short screen-recording walkthroughs
Run a consistent, reliable weekly content calendar
Engage the Community
Engage directly in comments, reply to industry peers, and jump into trending tech topics with Socket's point of view
Build a recognizable presence in developer conversations, not just a posting schedule
Inbound inbox triage, and crisis and reputation monitoring
About You:
Deep tech and developer literacy: fluent in developer culture, humor, tools, and pain points
Exquisite meme capabilities, applied judiciously across different platforms and tones
Terminally online, sharp, and technically precise
AI native: uses modern AI tools by default as part of how the work gets done
Proven short-form video and audio editing skills, backed by a strong portfolio
Demonstrated storytelling ability across a series of posts or a campaign, not just single posts
Platform fluency: a distinct voice and editing approach for each platform we operate on
A deep sense of ownership over the channels and the content, not just execution of a calendar
Ability to take a rough idea or concept and move fast, without needing every detail specified
Impeccable discretion regarding online communication, given the visibility and stakes of a public brand voice
Experience in DevRel, developer marketing, or a technical newsroom or media environment, preferred
Existing presence or credibility within a developer community, preferred
Experience owning a content calendar solo, end to end
Comfort with security, infrastructure, and open source subject matter
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
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: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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.
We are hiring a Compliance Engineering Lead to own compliance as an engineered system rather than a calendar of reminders.
Socket sells to security teams. Our customers ask harder questions than most buyers ask, and they are right to. That means our SOC 2 Type II, our path to ISO 27001, our risk and vendor programs, and the assurance artifacts we put in front of enterprise buyers all have to be genuinely well run, not merely present. The credibility of what we sell depends on it.
This is a foundational role, and it is deliberately an engineering role. The person we want does not manage compliance by chasing people for screenshots. They write code against APIs, build control tests that run on a schedule and fail loudly, and treat evidence collection as a pipeline with an owner and an SLA. You will own the compliance platform decision, including whether the platform we use today is the right one. If your answer is that we should build more of it ourselves, make that case.
You will report directly to the CISO, own the compliance program end to end, and hire and lead your first teammate, a customer trust hire focused on security questionnaires, RFPs, and contract security review with Legal. You will shape what GRC at Socket becomes.
Own SOC 2 Type II end to end. Run the observation window, the auditor relationship, and the evidence pipeline behind both. Scope the audit and make sure the controls we describe are the controls that actually run. You own the report our customers read.
Take Socket through ISO 27001 certification. Define the scope and the ISMS, run the gap assessment and internal audit, prepare the organization and get us certified. Enterprise customers are asking for this now. Then keep the ISMS alive as something the company uses rather than something the auditor visits.
Make evidence collection continuous, automated, and boring. Write and maintain automation that pulls evidence directly from the systems of record: GCP, GitHub, our identity provider, MDM, ticketing. Build control monitoring that alerts on drift the day it happens instead of surfacing it the week before an audit. Every recurring manual task you inherit is a candidate for deletion.
Turn risk management and vendor risk into working programs. Maintain a risk register that reflects the risks we actually carry and that leadership uses when making decisions. In partnership with our external security partner, run third party risk with real tiering, real reviews, and a renewal cadence that holds.
Own the customer-facing assurance surface. Launch and maintain our trust portal, and build the library of artifacts that answers enterprise buyers before they send a spreadsheet. Measure your success by how much questionnaire load disappears, not by how quickly it gets processed.
Scope our AI assurance posture. Our customers are shipping AI systems and so are we. Evaluate what matters: ISO/IEC 42001, emerging AI agent assurance standards such as AIUC-1, the EU AI Act, and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework. Inform which of these to commit to, in what order, and what it would take. This is open ground and you will help decide what Socket does here.
You have personally owned at least two full SOC 2 Type II cycles as the accountable person. Not contributed to them. Owned them, including the auditor relationship, the scoping arguments, the evidence, and the findings. You can describe a control that failed, why, and what you changed so it stopped failing.
ISO 27001 depth. You have taken an organization through certification or run an ISMS through surveillance audits, and you know the difference between an ISMS that works and a binder that satisfies an auditor.
You build automations. Comfortable building and maintaining automations against services. You can operate with GCP, GitHub, Iru and other reaching for a scheduled job before a recurring calendar reminder. You do not need to be a software engineer by training. You do need to be someone who automates.
Clear opinions about compliance platforms. Hands-on experience with Drata, Vanta, or similar, and specific views on where these tools create leverage and where they create the appearance of control.
The judgment to prioritize. You can tell the difference between a control gap that represents real risk and one that represents an auditor's formatting preference, and you spend the company's time accordingly.
Writing that holds up in front of four audiences. Auditors, enterprise security reviewers, engineers, and executives.
The instinct to step toward unowned problems, including the unglamorous seams between Security, Engineering, Legal, and Go-to-Market. Compliance at a company our size lives in those seams.
Experience in a remote, fast-moving environment where priorities shift and nobody hands you a fully defined program.
Nice to Have:
Exposure to AI governance frameworks (ISO/IEC 42001, NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act); experience at a security vendor or another company held to a higher bar by its own customers; contract security review alongside Legal; having built compliance automation in-house rather than buying it.
Informational with a member of our Talent Team
Hiring Manager interview with our CISO
Working session: walk us through a control you automated, and design an evidence pipeline with us
Cross-functional interviews with Engineering and Go-to-Market
Debrief
Decision and offer
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
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: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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
You'll own customer success post-sale, working specifically with large enterprise accounts that have complex technical environments and dependency ecosystems. That means understanding how each customer wants to use Socket, helping them get there, and solving problems when things break.
This is a product-focused, technical role. You'll spend your time learning customer environments, asking the right questions to uncover blockers, and translating product capabilities into solutions. You're also the front line for technical support. We don't have a separate support team. When something doesn't work as expected, you investigate.
AEs own renewals and expansion. You own making the customer successful with the product.
What You'll Do
Account Management
Own post sales relationship as the main point of contact and technical advisor
Strategize with AEs on upsells, renewals and expansions
Relationship building and executive alignment with our Champions
Conducting Quarterly Business Reviews with strategic customers
Build measurable customer success plans
Onboarding & Implementation
Lead technical onboarding for new enterprise customers, from initial setup through full integration
Work with engineering teams to configure Socket across CI/CD systems, build pipelines, IDEs, and internal tooling
Build repeatable onboarding playbooks, scripts, and automations that reduce time-to-value
Technical Troubleshooting
Investigate and resolve integration, configuration, and compatibility issues
Respond to customer issues in dedicated Slack channels
Use logs and telemetry to identify root causes and document fixes
Escalate to Engineering when needed and follow through to resolution
Product Enablement
Run discovery conversations to understand customer goals and use cases
Translate complex product capabilities into practical, developer-friendly guidance
Conduct architecture reviews and security posture assessments
Deliver workshops, office hours, and deep-dives that drive adoption
Customer Advocacy
Bring technical feedback and field intelligence back to Product and Engineering
Surface patterns that inform roadmap priorities
Contribute documentation and internal tooling to scale the Technical Success practice
What You'll Bring
4+ years in a technical customer-facing role (Solutions Engineer, Technical Account Manager, Support Engineer, or similar)
2+ years of experience being the dedicated point of contact for customers with an emphasis on quarterly health checks and success
Background in Socket's key product areas: Application Security, DevSecOps, package managers, or open-source ecosystems OR Linux systems administration, networking, firewalls, and Docker
Experience with developer tooling and CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.)
Ability to read and reason about code (JavaScript, Python, TypeScript)
Familiarity with APIs, webhooks, and SaaS integration patterns
Comfort troubleshooting in production environments alongside engineering teams
Clear written and verbal communication with developers, security practitioners, and executives
Willingness to travel for customer and company meetings as needed
Nice to Have
Experience managing large enterprise accounts with complex technical environments and dependency ecosystems
Experience with SCA, dependency management, or security scanning tools
Contributions to open-source projects
Tools You'll Use
Slack, GitHub, Zendesk, Vitally, HubSpot, Grafana
Our Interview Process
Informational call with someone from our Talent team
Virtual f2f with technical leadership
Virtual f2f with a peer
Presentation
Final interview with our Founder & CEO
References
Decision
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
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: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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
Leveling and compensation will be aligned dynamically throughout the interview process to match your technical scope and background.
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
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: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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
You'll own customer success post-sale for a portfolio of commercial customers. That means understanding how each customer wants to use Socket, helping them get there quickly, and solving problems when things break.
This is a product-focused, technical role. You'll balance hands-on customer guidance with scalable programs that help many customers adopt Socket successfully. You'll learn customer environments, uncover blockers, and translate product capabilities into practical solutions. You're also the front line for technical support. We don't have a separate support team. When something doesn't work as expected, you investigate.
AEs own renewals and expansion. You own making customers successful with the product and building repeatable motions that scale.
What You'll Do
Account Management
Own post sales relationship as the main point of contact and technical advisor
Strategize with AEs on upsells, renewals and expansions
Relationship building and executive alignment with our Champions
Conducting Quarterly Business Reviews with strategic customers
Build measurable customer success plans
Onboarding & Implementation
Lead technical onboarding for new enterprise customers, from initial setup through full integration
Work with engineering teams to configure Socket across CI/CD systems, build pipelines, IDEs, and internal tooling
Build repeatable onboarding playbooks, scripts, and automations that reduce time-to-value
Technical Troubleshooting
Investigate and resolve integration, configuration, and compatibility issues
Respond to customer issues in dedicated Slack channels
Use logs and telemetry to identify root causes and document fixes
Escalate to Engineering when needed and follow through to resolution
Product Enablement
Run discovery conversations to understand customer goals and use cases
Translate complex product capabilities into practical, developer-friendly guidance
Conduct architecture reviews and security posture assessments
Deliver workshops, office hours, and deep-dives that drive adoption
Customer Advocacy
Bring technical feedback and field intelligence back to Product and Engineering
Surface patterns that inform roadmap priorities
Contribute documentation and internal tooling to scale the Technical Success practice
What You'll Bring
3 years in a technical customer-facing role (Solutions Engineer, Technical Account Manager, Support Engineer, or similar)
1+ years of experience being the dedicated point of contact for customers with an emphasis on quarterly health checks and success
Background in Socket's key product areas: Application Security, DevSecOps, package managers, or open-source ecosystems OR Linux systems administration, networking, firewalls, and Docker
Experience with developer tooling and CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.)
Ability to read and reason about code (JavaScript, Python, TypeScript)
Familiarity with APIs, webhooks, and SaaS integration patterns
Hands-on experience with package managers
Comfort troubleshooting in production environments alongside engineering teams
Clear written and verbal communication with developers, security practitioners, and executives
Willingness to travel for customer and company meetings as needed
Nice to Have
Experience supporting commercial or mid-market customer segments
Experience with SCA, dependency management, or security scanning tools
Experience designing one-to-many customer programs
Contributions to open-source projects
Tools You'll Use
Slack, GitHub, Zendesk, Vitally, HubSpot, Grafana
Our Interview Process
Informational call with someone from our Talent team
Virtual f2f with technical leadership
Virtual f2f with a peer
Presentation
Final interview with our Founder & CEO
References
Decision
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
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: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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.
Our customers are the most demanding buyers in software: security teams and engineers who can smell fluff from a mile away. Keeping them successful takes a technical post-sales team, and those teams need strong leaders driving them.
You'll lead a team of Enterprise Technical Account Managers who own everything after the deal closes: onboarding, adoption, customer health, and the deep technical partnership that keeps engineers happy. Your team owns making sure there's never a product reason to walk away.
You have deep experience in post-sales, a track record of coaching team members to success, and have owned retention numbers that matter. You’ve been the person others go to for guidance, and you’re looking for the right opportunity to manage a small, dynamic team.
The Socket blueprints exist: segmentation, a health score model, role charters, and playbooks are drafted. Now we’re hiring a leadership layer to strengthen our operating muscle: automation, targets, cadences, team accountability and growth.
You'll inherit a strong team and a customer base that genuinely loves the product. Your job is to turn the blueprint into a retention engine that runs without heroics.
Lead, coach, and grow a team of Enterprise TAMs. Hire ahead of need as we scale.
Own adoption, customer health, and gross retention outcomes across the customer base, partnering with AEs who own the enterprise renewal
Influence and mature the post-sales operating system: our segmentation, health scoring, and lifecycle playbooks exist. Make them run, then make them better. QBRs should tell a real story with real data instead of a slide of vanity metrics.
Be the senior escalation point when an account is at risk. Run the deep dive, build the save plan, and see it through.
Set the bar for performance and career growth on your team, then hold it
Make the team faster per head every quarter through automation, playbooks, and one-to-many programs
Feed technical field intelligence back to Product and Engineering so customer patterns actually reach the roadmap
Report retention, adoption, and team health to leadership with numbers you'd bet on
Required:
4+ years directly managing post-sales teams (TAM, Solution Engineering, or related). You've hired, developed, and performance-managed ICs.
6+ years total in pre or post-sales roles (TAM, Solutions, or Services) in B2B SaaS
You've owned GRR, NRR, or adoption targets and can walk us through the number, the misses, and what you changed
Background in security, developer tools, or an adjacent technical product. You know how the SDLC works and how devs and security teams actually operate.
You've been the escalation owner on at-risk enterprise accounts and have the save stories to prove it
You've built, operationalized, or improved on core post-sales systems: segmentation, playbooks, health scoring, QBR frameworks.
Ready to step in as an individual contributor to support team needs, cover gaps, or lead by example when the team is at capacity.
Executive presence with CISOs and VPs of Engineering, and with our own leadership
Willingness to travel for customer and company meetings as needed
Demonstrated success in supporting and scaling relationships with large-scale enterprise customers, managing complex stakeholder requirements and high-stakes technical environments.
Preferred:
Domain experience in software supply chain security, AppSec, DevSecOps, or open-source ecosystems
You scaled a post-sales function at a high-growth startup through rapid ARR and headcount growth
You've managed TAM charters and kept each motion distinct but coordinated.
Hands-on with Vitally or similar CS platforms and scaled/digital-touch programs
Slack, GitHub, Zendesk, Vitally, HubSpot, Grafana
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
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: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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.
Our customers are the most demanding buyers in software: security teams and engineers who can smell fluff from a mile away. Keeping them successful takes a technical post-sales team, and those teams need strong leaders driving them.
You'll lead a team of Commercial Technical Account Managers who own everything after the deal closes: onboarding, adoption, customer health, and the deep technical partnership that keeps engineers happy. Your team owns making sure there's never a product reason to walk away.
You have deep experience in post-sales, a track record of coaching team members to success, and have owned retention numbers that matter. You’ve been the person others go to for guidance, and you’re looking for the right opportunity to manage a small, dynamic team.
The Socket blueprints exist: segmentation, a health score model, role charters, and playbooks are drafted. Now we’re hiring a leadership layer to strengthen our operating muscle: automation, targets, cadences, team accountability and growth.
You'll inherit a strong team and a customer base that genuinely loves the product. Your job is to turn the blueprint into a retention engine that runs without heroics.
Lead, coach, and grow a team of Commercial TAMs. Hire ahead of need as we scale.
Own adoption, customer health, and gross retention outcomes across the customer base, partnering with AEs who own the commercial renewal
Influence and mature the post-sales operating system: our segmentation, health scoring, and lifecycle playbooks exist. Make them run, then make them better. QBRs should tell a real story with real data instead of a slide of vanity metrics.
Be the senior escalation point when an account is at risk. Run the deep dive, build the save plan, and see it through.
Set the bar for performance and career growth on your team, then hold it
Make the team faster per head every quarter through automation, playbooks, and one-to-many programs
Feed technical field intelligence back to Product and Engineering so customer patterns actually reach the roadmap
Report retention, adoption, and team health to leadership with numbers you'd bet on
Required:
4+ years directly managing post-sales teams (TAM, Solutions Engineering, or related). You've hired, developed, and performance-managed ICs.
6+ years total in pre or post-sales roles (TAM, Solutions, or Services) in B2B SaaS
You've owned GRR, NRR, or adoption targets and can walk us through the number, the misses, and what you changed
Background in security, developer tools, or an adjacent technical product. You know how the SDLC works and how devs and security teams actually operate.
You've been the escalation owner on at-risk commercial accounts and have the save stories to prove it
You've built, operationalized, or improved on core post-sales systems: segmentation, playbooks, health scoring, QBR frameworks.
Ready to step in as an individual contributor to support team needs, cover gaps, or lead by example when the team is at capacity.
Executive presence with CISOs and VPs of Engineering, and with our own leadership
Willingness to travel for customer and company meetings as needed
Preferred:
Domain experience in software supply chain security, AppSec, DevSecOps, or open-source ecosystems
You scaled a post-sales function at a high-growth startup through rapid ARR and headcount growth
You've managed TAM charters and kept each motion distinct but coordinated.
Hands-on with Vitally or similar CS platforms and scaled/digital-touch programs
Slack, GitHub, Zendesk, Vitally, HubSpot, Grafana
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
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: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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.
We are looking for a driven Customer Success Manager to join our dynamic and highly-experienced sales team at Socket. In this role, you'll be a key partner in our post sales efforts by building relationships with Security teams, establishing healthy feedback loops to help guide our product development and design solutions that ensure long term growth with our customers. You’ll have the opportunity to make a significant impact in shaping the future of our product, selling process and success in across all markets.
Meet and exceed revenue targets by working closely with our SMB customers’ Security teams.
Manage existing customer relationships to drive renewal and upsell opportunities.
Create an unparalleled customer experience throughout the customer life cycle.
Collaborate with our Go-to-market, Engineering, and Professional Services teams to increase customer adoption.
Be responsible for running Quarterly Health Checks, renewals, and overall health of existing customers.
5 plus years of experience in a renewals Customer Success role for B2B SaaS solutions.
Experience selling in the cybersecurity (or related) industry.
Proven track record of meeting or exceeding renewal and upsell quotas.
An understanding of how to drive success in an early stage, fast-paced environment and take ownership to get the task done.
A collaborative mindset and the ability to build meaningful relationships throughout the sales process.
Strong written and verbal communication and experience communicating at every level including the C-Suite.
An aptitude to take on new projects outside the normal scope of the day to day role as needed.
The best candidates for Socket are talented, hard working, competitive, and not afraid to fail. They are team first but willing to take the lead with minimal guidance and supervision.
Willingness to travel for customer and company meetings as needed.
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
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: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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
You'll own customer success post-sale for our European Customers. That means understanding how each customer wants to use Socket, helping them get there, and solving problems when things break.
This is a product-focused, technical role. You'll spend your time learning customer environments, asking the right questions to uncover blockers, and translating product capabilities into solutions. You're also the front line for technical support. We don't have a separate support team. When something doesn't work as expected, you investigate.
AEs own renewals and expansion. You own making the customer successful with the product.
What You'll Do
Account Management
Own post sales relationship as the main point of contact and technical advisor
Strategize with AEs on upsells, renewals and expansions
Relationship building and executive alignment with our Champions
Conducting Quarterly Business Reviews with strategic customers
Build measurable customer success plans
Onboarding & Implementation
Lead technical onboarding for new enterprise customers, from initial setup through full integration
Work with engineering teams to configure Socket across CI/CD systems, build pipelines, IDEs, and internal tooling
Build repeatable onboarding playbooks, scripts, and automations that reduce time-to-value
Technical Troubleshooting
Investigate and resolve integration, configuration, and compatibility issues
Respond to customer issues in dedicated Slack channels
Use logs and telemetry to identify root causes and document fixes
Escalate to Engineering when needed and follow through to resolution
Product Enablement
Run discovery conversations to understand customer goals and use cases
Translate complex product capabilities into practical, developer-friendly guidance
Conduct architecture reviews and security posture assessments
Deliver workshops, office hours, and deep-dives that drive adoption
Customer Advocacy
Bring technical feedback and field intelligence back to Product and Engineering
Surface patterns that inform roadmap priorities
Contribute documentation and internal tooling to scale the Technical Success practice
What You'll Bring
6+ years in a technical customer-facing role (Solutions Engineer, Technical Account Manager, Support Engineer, or similar)
2+ years of experience being the dedicated point of contact for customers with an emphasis on quarterly health checks and success
Background in application security, DevSecOps, or open-source ecosystems
Experience with developer tooling and CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.)
Ability to read and reason about code (JavaScript, Python, TypeScript)
Familiarity with APIs, webhooks, and SaaS integration patterns
Hands-on experience with Package Managers
Comfort troubleshooting in production environments alongside engineering teams
Clear written and verbal communication with developers, security practitioners, and executives
Willingness to travel for customer and company meetings as needed
Must be located within EUROPE
Nice to Have
Experience with SCA, dependency management, or security scanning tools
Contributions to open-source projects
Tools You'll Use
Slack, GitHub, Zendesk, Vitally, HubSpot, Grafana
Our Interview Process
Informational call with someone from our Talent team
Virtual f2f with our Head of Customer Engineering
Virtual f2f with a peer
Presentation
Final interview with our Founder & CEO
References
Decision
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
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: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.
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
Join Socket to build and scale our patching infrastructure that delivers secure, vetted packages to developers worldwide. You’ll be at the forefront of supply chain security, creating patches for critical vulnerabilities and building the systems that help the entire open source ecosystem stay secure.
This role emphasizes deep software engineering expertise, especially in Rust and Unix environments. You'll tackle challenging CLI work—scoping, troubleshooting, and addressing edge cases across multiple package managers. This role combines engineering work with meaningful community impact that benefits the entire ecosystem. As an early member of the Socket team, you’ll help shape how we scale this technology.
What You'll Do
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
What You'll Bring
Required:
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
Preferred:
Experience with security tooling, vulnerability scanning, or patch management
Knowledge of software supply chain security challenges
Experience with other package ecosystems (Python, Go, etc.)
Open source contributions or package maintenance experience
Background in DevSecOps or security engineering
Experience with high-throughput data processing systems
Our Interview Process
Informational with a member from our Talent Team
Hiring Manager Interview
Peer Interview
Take-home problem
Internal review of take-home
Live review of take-home
Debrief
Final Interview with our founder
References
Decision/Offer
Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our Hiring Philosophy and how we approach the process at Socket.
Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer:
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: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions.
Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains.
Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.