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 longtime open source maintainer with software downloaded over a billion times a month, Socket has raised $65M in funding from top angels, operators, and security leaders.
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 farreaching 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 companys culture and our future team. Our ability to build a marketdefining product is solely dependent on the culture we foster.
Set up foundational frameworks: Youll join at the genesis of something totally new and come into a fastpaced environment. We value processdriven systems that enable us to work smarter as we scale, and youll build out design systems that will serve as guide rails for the engineering team.
Contribute to the development of the Socket web application endtoend
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
Youve worked on an early stage team in a 01 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 onthego
Bonus points for experience with any of the following technologies GraphQL, ElasticSearch, Headless browsers, data pipelines
Interview Process:
Informational with a member from our Talent Team
Hiring Manager Interview
Takehome problem
Internal review of takehome
Live review of takehome: system level design and code (you + two of our tech leads)
Debrief
Final Interview with Feross
References
DecisionOffer
As we know how important clarity is when looking for a new role, weve put together a readme about the Interview Process at Socket, should you be invited for an interview.
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 were nonterritorial 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.
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