{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"08b3ac25b35ab595b69bbd13","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/08b3ac25b35ab595b69bbd13","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/08b3ac25b35ab595b69bbd13","title":"Engineering Manager","description":"About Us\nSocket 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!)\n\nFounded 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.\nAbout the Role\nWe're hiring an Engineering Manager to help lead our engineering team as we scale.\nIn 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.\nWe'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. You'll help the team balance long-term technical investments with near-term execution, maintain a high bar for engineering quality, and create the clarity and alignment that enables engineers to move quickly without sacrificing thoughtful decision-making.\nWhat You'll Do\nLead and grow a high-performing team of engineers by building a culture of trust, ownership, and autonomy where people can do their best work, make decisions, and continue to develop.\nPartner closely with engineering and go-to-market stakeholders to ensure the team is solving the right problems - not just building the right solutions.\nStay engaged with technical decisions, helping the team reason through architecture, trade-offs, and complexity, without needing to make every decision yourself.\nImprove the process of how we work, identifying bottlenecks, refining processes, and automating away toil.\nBring clarity to ambiguous problems by helping the team align on priorities, make thoughtful decisions, and maintain strong execution.\nBalance long-term technical investments with near-term business needs, ensuring the team delivers sustainable, high-quality outcomes.\nFoster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement where engineers are empowered to lead and make decisions.\nWhat You'll Bring\nExperience leading engineering teams in a fast-moving environment where priorities and solutions are not always clearly defined.\nInstinct to step toward ambiguous or unowned problems, including the unglamorous seams between teams.\nStrong technical judgment and the ability to engage deeply in architectural discussions, understand trade-offs, and guide technical decisions.\nComfort working in a TypeScript/JavaScript ecosystem is a plus, though we value strong engineering fundamentals over experience with a specific language or framework.\nStrong product sense: able to talk directly to customers, absorb inputs from many sources, and determine how a product should work.\nCommunication that keeps other teams informed on your team’s goals, needs, and progress, and that provides your team with enough context to make good decisions even if you aren’t in the room.\nExperience managing in a remote environment, ideally with a globally-distributed team.\nWe 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.\nBenefits: 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:\nMarket competitive salary bands\nMeaningful equity program\nComprehensive health benefits for you and your family (99% coverage)\nFlexible time-off, holidays, and winter shutdown to rest & recharge\nPaid parental leave\nRemote-first, with quarterly team off-sites\nAt Socket, we\nPursue Excellence: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.\nMove with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.\nThink 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.\nTrust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.\nFeel 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.\nAre customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.","company":"Socket","rawCompany":"socket","city":"Denver","state":"CO","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-14T13:53:35.229Z","occupations":[{"code":"11-9041.00","title":"Architectural and Engineering Managers","slug":"architectural-and-engineering-managers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"17-2199.00","title":"Engineers, All Other","slug":"engineers-all-other"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Engineering Manager","description":"About Us\nSocket 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!)\n\nFounded 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.\nAbout the Role\nWe're hiring an Engineering Manager to help lead our engineering team as we scale.\nIn 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. 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We offer:\nMarket competitive salary bands\nMeaningful equity program\nComprehensive health benefits for you and your family (99% coverage)\nFlexible time-off, holidays, and winter shutdown to rest & recharge\nPaid parental leave\nRemote-first, with quarterly team off-sites\nAt Socket, we\nPursue Excellence: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.\nMove with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.\nThink rigorously: We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. 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