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 (just check out their tweets to see for yourself!) Founded by Feross Aboukhadijeh, a long-time open source maintainer with software downloaded over a billion times a month, Socket has raised $65M in funding from top angels, operators, and security leaders. About the Role As Socket's first dedicated Channels & Partnerships hire, you'll build our partner ecosystem from the ground up and establish strategic relationships that amplify our reach in the CISO and AppSec space. You'll help security teams and organizations discover Socket through trusted partners while creating scalable revenue channels that complement our direct sales efforts. This is a high-ownership role where you'll work directly with Socket's leadership team to drive mutual success for Socket, our partners, and our customers. What You'll Do - Manage Strategic Security Partner Relationships: Build and lead Socket's alliances with key security consulting firms, system integrators, and technology vendors. Create long-term value through strong executive engagement and multi-level stakeholder relationships. - Create & Execute Partnership Strategies: Build and implement annual partner plans with specific revenue targets, key milestones, and success metrics. Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure partnerships deliver measurable business impact. - Build and Launch Channel Sales Motions: Create joint go-to-market strategies that capitalize on supply chain security trends, partner strengths, and market opportunities within security ecosystems to accelerate revenue growth. - Cultivate Executive-Level Partnerships: Establish and maintain trusted C-level relationships between Socket and security ecosystem partners, serving as a strategic liaison and business connector. - Drive Sales & Partner Enablement: Orchestrate internal training and partner field support, ensuring Socket's sales teams and partner organizations understand how to position and sell joint security solutions effectively. - Execute Co-Marketing & Pipeline Generation: Partner with marketing teams to deliver high-impact co-branded initiatives, security events, and content strategies that build pipeline and enhance market presence. - Conduct Partnership Performance Reviews: Run comprehensive business reviews with partners to assess progress, analyze key metrics, and identify data-driven opportunities for growth and optimization. What You'll Bring - 6+ years of experience in Channel Sales, Partnership Management, or Business Development, with strong preference for security, AppSec, or enterprise software backgrounds selling into CISO and security organizations. - Deep knowledge of enterprise security ecosystems, including understanding how security consultancies, managed services providers, and system integrators serve enterprise clients and position security solutions. - Strong security domain knowledge; ability to engage confidently with security executives and technical teams about supply chain risks, vulnerability management, and enterprise security strategies. - Proven track record in relationship development with experience navigating complex security organizations and driving cross-functional alignment in consulting and enterprise settings. - Strategic mindset with the ability to translate partnership vision into revenue execution while being hands-on with deal closure and partner success initiatives. - Experienced dealmaker with demonstrated success in end-to-end partner negotiations, including agreements, service level commitments, and revenue structures. - Strong executive communicator with confident presentation skills and experience engaging CISO-level decision makers and security leadership teams. - Revenue-focused mindset with proven ability to build channel programs, drive partner-generated revenue, and identify opportunities that create mutual value across partnerships. We know how important clarity is when looking for a new role, so we've put together a read-me about the Interview Process at Socket. Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer: - Market competitive salary bands - Meaningful equity program - Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family - Flexible time-off, holidays, and winter shutdown to rest & recharge - Paid parental leave - Remote-first, with quarterly team off-sites At Socket, we - Pursue Excellence: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction. - Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action. - Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions. - Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve. - Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains. - Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.

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 to see for yourself!) Founded by Feross Aboukhadijeh, a long-time open source maintainer with software downloaded over a billion times a month, Socket has raised $65M in funding from top angels, operators, and security leaders. About the Role We're hiring a Security Engineer to own security across the company. This is a senior IC role covering application security, cloud infrastructure, operational security, IT, compliance, and incident response. 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 - Improve Socket's security posture across the board. Own application security, cloud infrastructure hardening, operational security, and IT security. Write code and build tooling that makes the secure path the default path for engineers. Roll out identity and access controls, close gaps across the stack, and continuously reduce risk. - Assess, prioritize, and drive the security roadmap. Figure out what matters most, balance quick wins with longer-term improvements, and execute across many fronts in parallel. You won't wait to be told what to work on. You'll develop a clear picture of where Socket's risks are and make steady progress against them. - Run incident response and external security operations. Build and run a 24/7 security incident response process. Own the security@ inbox, triage inbound vulnerability reports, manage pentests, and coordinate fixes. When you can fix something directly, you do. - Maintain compliance and drive new certifications. Maintain our existing SOC 2 compliance. Drive new certifications (ISO 27001, etc.) as needed for enterprise customers. - Raise security awareness and culture across the org. Train engineers to write more secure code. Run phishing simulations. Build trust with engineering teams so that security feels like an enabler, not a blocker. Make people want to do the right thing rather than resenting security as a tax. What You'll Bring - You've owned security broadly at a growth-stage company, or you're a strong software engineer who's moved into security and is ready to own the function end-to-end. - You can ship production TypeScript. When the engineering org is heads-down on product work, you unblock yourself by writing code, standing up tooling, and modifying infrastructure rather than filing tickets and waiting. - You have breadth across security domains (AppSec, CloudSec, OpSec) and you're comfortable learning fast where gaps exist. - You're fluent in cloud infrastructure (we use GCP): VPCs, IAM, secret management, networking. - You're a self-directed operator who figures out what matters most and executes across many fronts without waiting to be told what to do. You move fast, find leverage, and get a lot done with a little. - You have the communication and teaching skills to make an entire engineering org care about security, not by blocking people, but by earning trust and making the secure path the easy path. We know how important clarity is when looking for a new role, so we've put together a read-me about the Interview Process at Socket. Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer: - Market competitive salary bands - Meaningful equity program - Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family - Flexible time-off, holidays, and winter shutdown to rest & recharge - Paid parental leave - Remote-first, with quarterly team off-sites At Socket, we - Pursue Excellence: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction. - Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action. - Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions. - Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve. - Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains. - Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.

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 to see for yourself!) Founded by Feross Aboukhadijeh, a long-time open source maintainer with software downloaded over a billion times a month, Socket has raised $65M in funding from top angels, operators, and security leaders. A Letter From Our Founder & CEO: We've built something rare at Socket. A 40-person engineering team that moves with velocity and keeps a high bar on what ships. We don't have the usual dysfunction that plagues fast-growing companies. What we do have is clarity about the problem we're solving, alignment on what matters, and people who care about doing work that actually protects the software supply chain. Now we're at an interesting inflection point. We need to double the engineering organization while keeping everything that made us fast. That's the core problem: how do you stay fast and maintain code quality and culture while you scale from 40 to 80+ engineers? The best engineering organizations don't scale because they hire more of the right people. They scale because they've designed how decisions get made, how work gets prioritized, how teams coordinate without creating meetings overhead, how people get unblocked. The operating system is the difference between a team that grows and a team that fractures under its own weight. Socket has a strong technical leadership team. What we're missing is someone who owns the operating system. Someone who looks at how we're currently shipping things and says "this works for 40 people, but it won't work for 80, and here's what we need to change. Someone who understands that keeping engineers happy and keeping the product moving fast are the same problem, not competing problems. This role is about protecting what we've built while scaling it. It's about designing planning processes and team structure and decision-making rhythms that are lightweight enough to stay fast and rigorous enough that dependencies surface before they become problems. It's about identifying the engineering leaders who can own their domains and then creating the conditions where they can do their best work. You'll spend about two-thirds of your time on operations and people leadership. The other third stays hands-on technical. Not because we need more code reviewed, but because your technical credibility determines whether people actually trust your leadership on the hard calls. You work directly with me. The decisions you make about how the team operates will shape Socket for the next three years. This is partnership, not delegation. If you've scaled an engineering organization before, if you understand that how you build is as important as what you build, and if you want to work on something that actually matters, let's talk. What You'll Do - Scale the engineering organization from 40 to 80+ people while protecting the velocity, code quality, and culture that makes Socket work. Own two intertwined responsibilities: be the operational leader who keeps the organization unblocked and coordinated, AND be the technical leader who shapes architecture decisions and keeps the team executing with urgency. - Design an operating system that actually works. Build planning cadence, sprint structure, and decision-making processes that are lightweight enough to stay fast and rigorous enough to catch risks early. Document how Socket makes decisions so new engineers understand the culture, not just the rules. The best operating systems don't feel like bureaucracy. They feel like clarity. - Build technical leadership across the organization. Create weekly coordination rhythms so teams sync proactively. Define clear growth paths so engineers know how to advance. - Eliminate operational friction. Identify the five biggest bottlenecks slowing the team down. By month six, those problems should be solved and measurable. This might be unclear prioritization, dependencies discovered mid-sprint, code review bottlenecks, unnecessary meetings, or context switching that kills focus. - Own delivery on major cross-team initiatives. Define what success looks like, track progress weekly, manage dependencies, escalate risks early. - Keep hands-on technical credibility. Spend about 35% of your time on real technical work: code review, architecture decisions, mentoring leads, unblocking hard problems. This is not negotiable. Your technical credibility determines whether the team respects your leadership. You need one foot in the code so you make better trade-off decisions. - Partner on technical strategy. Help articulate where Socket's architecture is heading. Create lightweight architecture review processes so major decisions are coordinated and informed, not siloed. - Establish culture and feedback loops that scale. Run skip-level 1-on-1s to understand what's actually blocking people. Institute monthly retrospectives so the team learns from each other's wins and failures. Build a feedback culture where code review is learning and where architecture reviews strengthen decisions instead of slowing them down. What You'll Bring - You've scaled an engineering organization up to 100 people. You remember exactly what broke along the way and how you fixed it. You can articulate what "good" looks like at each scale and why the things that worked at 40 people stop working at 100. - You've built and executed operating systems for large organizations. You can walk through your planning process, how you manage dependencies, your sprint cycle, and how you surface risks. You build structure without creating bureaucracy. - Deep hands-on technical depth. You code regularly. You can have sophisticated conversations about architecture, distributed systems, and trade-offs. You can explain a major technical decision you made and whether you'd make it again. You're not afraid to challenge engineers on design. - You've managed complex cross-functional programs. You have concrete examples of coordinating 4+ teams on major initiatives. You surface dependencies upfront, handle conflicts thoughtfully, and keep complex programs on track. - A track record of moving fast and shipping. You can point to the biggest things you've shipped in the last year: how long they took, how many people, what the impact was. You optimize for speed without sacrificing quality. - You work exceptionally well with founders and hands-on leadership. You push back thoughtfully when you disagree. You complement our strengths. You don't need to be the smartest person in the room; you need to make the smartest people on your team better. - Experience with security or supply chain security is a plus. You've shipped security features or worked on infrastructure security. You understand why this problem matters. - You care about culture as much as you care about execution. You believe that how you build is as important as what you build. We know how important clarity is when looking for a new role, so we've put together a read-me about the Interview Process at Socket. Benefits: Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer: - Market competitive salary bands - Meaningful equity program - Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family - Flexible time-off, holidays, and winter shutdown to rest & recharge - Paid parental leave - Remote-first, with quarterly team off-sites At Socket, we - Pursue Excellence: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction. - Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action. - Think rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions. - Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve. - Feel a strong sense of ownership: We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains. - Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.

About Socket Founded in 2021, Socket Labs is a tech startup building infrastructure to make it easy for developers and users to interact and compose across chains/rollups via our unique chain-abstraction protocol. We are a small team of 20-30 people and intend to remain as small as possible for as long as possible. Our sole focus is creating impact for the end users and developers. We have done multiple funding rounds and are backed by marquee investors including Framework Ventures, Nascent Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Archetype, Lightspeed Ventures, and notable angels like Mark Cuban. About the role Didn't find a role that fits, but still want to get in touch? We're always on the lookout for talented individuals who are passionate about what they do. If you believe you can make a difference and want to be part of our team, we'd love to hear from you! Why work with us Our product has real scale, reaching millions of people in crypto and beyond today. As a team of builders, we prioritize impact over everything else. Our team fosters a positive atmosphere, with all of us striving for the best for each other and our chain abstraction mission. We're tackling an ambitious problem, working on a mission that is extremely challenging yet fun and holds high-impact potential for the entire crypto industry.