Engineering, Certified Packages - Remote Eligible

Socket Certified Packages Team Role

Join Socket's Certified Packages team to build and scale our patching infrastructure that delivers secure, vetted packages to developers worldwide. You'll be at the forefront of supply chain security, creating patches for critical vulnerabilities and building the systems that help the entire open source ecosystem stay secure. This role combines deep technical work with meaningful community impact — we're giving away free patches for the top 100 most critical CVEs to benefit the entire ecosystem.

As an early member of the Certified Packages team, you'll help shape how we scale from dozens to hundreds of patches per week, starting with npm packages and expanding across the JavaScript ecosystem.

What You'll Do

• Master Socket's Certified Packages workflows, tools, and patching processes
• Lead patching efforts for high-impact vulnerabilities across npm packages
• Scale patch production to dozens or hundreds of patches per week
• Help select and prioritize high-value patches for free community release
• Provide technical input on patch prioritization based on ecosystem and customer impact
• Build and improve automated patching infrastructure and tooling
• Design and implement scalable patch generation and delivery systems
• Develop automated vulnerability detection and patch creation workflows
• Build APIs and integrations to deliver certified packages
• Create tooling for patch quality assurance and testing
• Work with security researchers to understand and patch critical vulnerabilities
• Help shape the technical roadmap for Certified Packages expansion beyond JavaScript

• Provide free access to patches for the top 100 most critical CVEs
• Give developers quick, safe remediation options for widely-used packages
• Help secure the software supply chain for millions of developers

What We Are Looking For

Required:

• 3+ years of software engineering experience with production systems
• Strong proficiency in Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript
• Experience with package managers (npm, yarn, pnpm) and the JavaScript ecosystem
• Understanding of software security concepts and vulnerability management
• Experience building and scaling APIs and data processing pipelines
• Familiarity with automated testing, CI/CD, and deployment systems

Preferred:

• Experience with security tooling, vulnerability scanning, or patch management
• Knowledge of software supply chain security challenges
• Experience with other package ecosystems (Python, Go, Rust, etc.)
• Open source contributions or package maintenance experience
• Background in DevSecOps or security engineering
• Experience with high-throughput data processing systems

At Socket, We

1. Pursue Excellence: We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction.
2. Move with urgency and focus: We prioritize swift, decisive action.
3. 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.
4. Trust and amplify: We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve.
5. 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.
6. Are customer obsessed: We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction.