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SocketSocketSan Francisco, CA

VP of Engineering

Leads scaling of engineering team from 40 to 80+ while maintaining velocity and culture. Owns operational systems, people leadership, and hands-on technical work including architecture and code review. Requires experience scaling orgs and deep technical expertise.

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About the role

What You'll Do

  • Scale the engineering organization from 40 to 80+ people while protecting velocity, code quality, and culture.
  • Own operations and people leadership (two-thirds of time) and hands-on technical work (one-third).
  • Design lightweight planning cadence, sprint structure, decision-making processes, and documentation.
  • Build technical leadership, weekly coordination rhythms, and clear growth paths.
  • Eliminate top operational bottlenecks (e.g., prioritization, dependencies, code review, meetings, context switching) within 6 months.
  • Own delivery on major cross-team initiatives, track progress, manage dependencies.
  • Maintain technical credibility via code review, architecture decisions, mentoring.
  • Partner on technical strategy and architecture reviews.
  • Establish scalable culture with skip-level 1:1s, monthly retrospectives, feedback loops.

What You'll Bring

  • Scaled engineering org to 100+ people, fixed what broke at scale.
  • Built/executed operating systems: planning, dependencies, sprints, risk surfacing.
  • Deep hands-on technical depth: regular coding, architecture/distributed systems expertise.
  • Managed complex cross-functional programs with 4+ teams.
  • Track record of fast shipping with impact.
  • Works well with founders/hands-on leaders.
  • Security/supply chain experience a plus.

Benefits

  • Market competitive salary bands
  • Meaningful equity program
  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Flexible time-off, holidays, winter shutdown
  • Paid parental leave
  • Remote-first, quarterly off-sites

Skills

Distributed SystemsArchitecture DesignCode ReviewTechnical LeadershipEngineering OperationsSprint PlanningDependency ManagementCross-Team CoordinationSecuritySupply Chain Security

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