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Senior Platform Engineer

Socket· Engineering
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RemoteFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Senior Platform Engineer at Socket responsible for scaling infrastructure, building foundational frameworks, and improving reliability, performance, and cost efficiency as the customer base grows.

Responsibilities

  • Partner closely with our engineers to debug production issues, improve performance, and design systems that scale reliably
  • Own and evolve Socket’s infrastructure, with a focus on reliability, performance, and cost as we scale
  • Help define and evolve SLIs and SLOs for new and existing systems, turning reliability into something that can be measured and improved
  • Debug, maintain, and improve our deployment pipeline, including addressing failures in production and driving meaningful improvements over time
  • Build and maintain observability across our systems (metrics, logs, traces) to support faster detection and resolution of issues
  • Participate in an on-call rotation and drive incident reviews with an emphasis on concrete follow-ups and system improvements

Qualifications

  • 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)

Skills

Required:Software developmentDevOps / SREObservabilityContainer orchestrationInfrastructure as codeCloud platformsCI/CD

Benefits

  • 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
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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