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title: 'Sales Engineer, EMEA at Socket'
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# Sales Engineer, EMEA at Socket

- **Company:** Socket
- **Location:** United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/socket/b88a5ea5-fb24-4e42-b567-072bf14a14ba

## Job description

## 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-b)[125M in funding](https://socket.dev/blog/series-c) from top angels, operators, and security leaders.

## About the Role

We're seeking a Sales Engineer, EMEA to lead Socket's growth in Europe. This is a unique hybrid role combining pre-sales technical expertise with post-sale customer success ownership. You'll be the bridge between prospects evaluating Socket and existing customers expanding their usage, driving both deal closure and long-term customer outcomes.

## What You’ll Do

Pre-Sales & Demos:

- Lead technical discussions and product demonstrations tailored to prospect needs
- Design and execute proofs of concept (POCs) that enable prospects to evaluate Socket effectively
- Address technical objections, troubleshoot issues, and build customer confidence
- Translate Socket's capabilities into business value for security and engineering teams

Post-Sales & Growth:

- Own the success and growth of assigned European enterprise accounts
- Create and execute success plans aligned to customer goals with clear KPIs
- Drive feature adoption and expansion opportunities across the customer base
- Conduct quarterly business reviews and renewal discussions
- Escalate customer feedback to product and engineering teams

Cross-Functional Partnership:

- Collaborate with Sales, Product, Engineering, and CS teams to understand customer needs
- Contribute to scalable processes and playbooks for European enterprise accounts
- Provide strategic feedback on market needs and feature requests
- Support the creation of technical documentation and integration guides

## What You'll Bring

- 5+ years in pre-sales technical roles (Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Solutions Architect, TAM) with enterprise customers
- 2+ years of experience in customer success, account management, or post-sale technical roles
- Prior experience in security, developer tools, or SaaS environments
- Hands-on technical background: prior software engineering, data science, or equivalent role
- Deep familiarity with package managers (at least one of npm or PyPI) and programming ecosystems (at least one of JavaScript or Python)
- Understanding of software supply chain security and vulnerability management concepts
- Ability to read/write basic scripts in Python, JS, or Go
- Knowledge of source control systems (Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket)
- RESTful API and integration experience

Our Interview Process

- Phone Screen with our Talent Team
- Virtual f2f with the Hiring Manager
- Virtual f2f with members of our Sales Team
- Presentation
- Final call with our Founder
- Debrief
- References
- Offer

Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our [Hiring Philosophy](https://socket.dev/hiring-philosophy)and how we approach the 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 (99% coverage)
- 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

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Socket is a developer-first cybersecurity platform that proactively detects and blocks malicious packages in real time to prevent software supply chain attacks.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Feross Aboukhadijeh

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Cybersecurity, software supply chain security, open source risk management.
- Target customers: B2B, serving developers and security teams across technology, media, healthcare, finance, and other industries; suitable for enterprises and SMBs alike.
- Mission or purpose: To improve the security of the internet by helping developers ship faster and safely find, audit, and manage open source software at scale.

## Products & Services
- **[Socket for GitHub](https://socket.dev)**: A GitHub app that scans pull requests for risky dependency additions and malicious updates before they merge. Detects malware, typosquats, HTTP dependencies, and more. (SaaS/integration)
- **[Socket Firewall](https://socket.dev)**: A command-line tool that blocks malicious packages at install time (e.g., `$ sfw npm install`). Provides real-time scanning and protection during package installation. (CLI/agent)
- **[Dependency Search](https://socket.dev)**: A search engine providing security insights, quality scores, maintenance ratings, vulnerability checks, and license info for millions of open source packages across npm, PyPI, and other registries. (Web tool/API)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available.
- **Key Metric**: Over 300,000 organizations protected; 11.6M+ code repositories protected; detects over 100 zero-day attacks every week.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Backed by top-tier venture firms and industry leaders including Abstract Ventures, Elad Gil, Patrick Collinson, Zane Lackey (Ex-CEO of Signal Sciences), Haroon Meer (Thinkst), and others.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid adoption with 85+ (and growing) orgs explicitly shown; active hiring across 22+ roles; expanding product to keep pace with AI-generated code risks.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proactive, behavioral detection**: Unlike traditional security tools that rely on known vulnerability databases, Socket analyzes the actual behavior of packages to catch zero-day and novel threats before they cause harm.
- **Developer-first workflow**: Integrates seamlessly into existing Git and CLI workflows (GitHub PRs, npm install) without disrupting developer velocity.
- **Broad registry coverage**: Scans packages across npm, PyPI, and other major open source ecosystems, covering the 90% of modern codebases that come from open source.

## Strategic Focus
- Deepening protection against AI-generated and rapidly changing open source dependencies.
- Expanding detection capabilities to cover more registries and attack patterns.
- Scaling the platform to serve both large enterprises and individual developers, with a continued emphasis on real-time, low-friction security.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Principles of learning, collaboration, transparency, experimentation, and passion. Team moves with urgency and trust, and is customer and feedback obsessed.
- **Remote work**: Remote-first with core hours overlap; HQ office in San Francisco available but not required.
- **Benefits**: Excellent health/dental/vision insurance (largely covered for you and dependents); unlimited time off; stock options; quarterly team offsites in beautiful locations; market-competitive salary benchmarking.
- **Engineering culture**: Open source pedigree with founder Feross Aboukhadijeh (Node.js Foundation board, Stanford lecturer). Strong focus on shipping fast, secure software.

## Sources
1. [socket.dev](https://socket.dev)
2. [socket.dev/about](https://socket.dev/about)
3. [socket.dev/careers](https://socket.dev/careers)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/socket-0)

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