Engineering Manager
Socket · USA
About this role
## About Socket Socket helps developers and security teams ship faster by cutting out security busywork. Thousands of organizations use Socket to safely find, audit, and manage open source code—customers include Anthropic, xAI, Figma, and Vercel. Founded by Feross Aboukhadijeh (open source maintainer with software downloaded over a billion times a month), Socket has raised $125M from top angels, operators, and security leaders. --- ## Engineering Manager — 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. You won’t direct every solution—you’ll **facilitate productive technical discussions**, build alignment, and create the conditions for engineers to do their best work. --- ## What You’ll Do - **Lead and grow** a high-performing team by building a culture of trust, ownership, and autonomy. - Partner with engineering and go-to-market stakeholders to ensure the team solves the **right problems**. - Stay engaged with technical decisions to reason through **architecture, trade-offs, and complexity**. - Improve how we work: identify bottlenecks, refine processes, and automate away toil. - Bring clarity to ambiguous problems by aligning on priorities and maintaining strong execution. - Balance long-term technical investments with near-term business needs. - Foster ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement. --- ## What You’ll Bring - Experience leading engineering teams in a fast-moving environment where priorities aren’t always clear. - Instinct to step toward ambiguous or unowned problems (including cross-team seams). - Strong technical judgment and comfort engaging deeply in architectural discussions. - Comfort working in a **TypeScript/JavaScript** ecosystem is a plus (strong fundamentals matter most). - Strong product sense and ability to incorporate customer input. - Clear communication that keeps other teams informed and provides enough context for good decisions. - Experience managing in a **remote** environment (ideally globally distributed). --- ## 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 --- ## Our Values (At Socket) - **Pursue Excellence**: exceptional quality and distinction - **Move with urgency and focus** - **Think rigorously** (reason from first principles) - **Trust and amplify** (overtrust, assume good intent, give specific feedback) - **Strong sense of ownership** - **Customer obsessed** (prioritize customer needs and delight them)
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