Engineering Manager - Socket

About Us

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.

Founded by Feross Aboukhadijeh, a long-time open source maintainer with software downloaded over a billion times a month, Socket has raised $125M in funding from top angels, operators, and security leaders.

About the Role

We're hiring an Engineering Manager to help lead our engineering team as we scale.

In this role, you'll work closely with engineers on technical challenges while helping the team navigate ambiguity, make thoughtful decisions, and deliver with speed and quality. Rather than directing every solution, you'll facilitate productive technical discussions, build alignment, and create the conditions for our engineers to do their best work.

We're looking for someone who can think strategically, stay close enough to the technical work to understand trade-offs, ask good questions, and help guide technical decisions, while leading through influence rather than authority.

What You'll Do

• Lead and grow a high-performing team of engineers by building a culture of trust, ownership, and autonomy.
• Partner closely with engineering and go-to-market stakeholders to ensure the team is solving the right problems.
• Stay engaged with technical decisions, helping the team reason through architecture, trade-offs, and complexity.
• Improve the process of how we work, identifying bottlenecks, refining processes, and automating away toil.
• Bring clarity to ambiguous problems by helping the team align on priorities and maintain strong execution.
• Balance long-term technical investments with near-term business needs.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

What You'll Bring

• Experience leading engineering teams in a fast-moving environment where priorities are not always clearly defined.
• Instinct to step toward ambiguous or unowned problems.
• Strong technical judgment and the ability to engage deeply in architectural discussions and guide technical decisions.
• Comfort working in a TypeScript/JavaScript ecosystem is a plus, though we value strong engineering fundamentals.
• Strong product sense: able to talk directly to customers and determine how a product should work.
• Communication that keeps other teams informed and provides your team with strong context.
• Experience managing in a remote environment, ideally with a globally-distributed team.

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
• Paid parental leave
• Remote-first, with quarterly team off-sites