# Senior Platform Engineer
**Company:** [Socket](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/socket)
**Location:** Remote
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GCP, GitHub Actions
**Posted:** 2026-02-12
> Senior Platform Engineer owns and evolves infrastructure for reliability, performance, and cost optimization at scale. Partners with engineers on debugging, observability (Prometheus, Grafana), deployment pipelines (Kubernetes, Terraform), and on-call incident response. Requires 5+ years experience including DevOps/SRE.
## Job Description
## 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)
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