Senior Platform Engineer

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)