Staff Security Engineer

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 (just check out their tweets https://socket.dev/love to see for yourself!) Founded by Feross Aboukhadijeh https://www.linkedin.com/in/feross/, a long-time open source maintainer with software downloaded over a billion times a month, Socket has raised $ https://socket.dev/blog/series-b125M in funding https://socket.dev/blog/series-c from top angels, operators, and security leaders. About the Role We’re hiring a Security Engineer to help define and scale our security program. This is an IC role with broad ownership across application security, infrastructure, corporate security, and detection engineering. You’ll work hands-on alongside the engineering team, writing code, building internal tooling, and driving meaningful security improvements as we grow. Socket is a security company, and our internal security posture matters both for protecting the company and for the credibility of what we sell. This role is a rare combination: full ownership of a critical function, a company with real traction, and a deeply relevant problem space. As Socket grows, so will the security function, and you'll shape what that looks like. What You'll Do - Impr