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

- **Company:** Socket
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $125k–$160k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/socket/de959cdb-2441-4ce9-a31a-4cc4e50fb8fe

## 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.

Socket is looking for a Sales Engineer to support our SMB Clients. In this role you will be at the nexus between our customers and our engineering, product, and design teams. You'll work cross-functionally in order to provide technical education, guidance, and support in a pre-sales capacity.

What You’ll Do:

- Lead discussions and product demonstrations to showcase capabilities; address customer challenges, respond to questions, and handle objections.
- Craft technical content to guide customers in implementing specific use cases or extending our solution.
- Collaborate with account teams to understand customer requirements and translate them to Socket capabilities, emphasizing business value.
- Support Proof of Concepts (POCs) that align with customer requirements; provide technical expertise, troubleshooting, and guidance throughout the evaluation process.
- Provide guidance on integrating solutions into the customer's existing infrastructure.
- Distill and communicate customer needs and product feedback to Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, and Sales.
- Collaborate with Customer Success to drive post-sales revenue, ensure retention, and contribute to growth.
- Execute cross-functional projects involving teams such as Engineering, Sales, and Marketing.

## What You'll Bring

- Prior technical experience in roles like Software Development, TAM, Solutions Architect, Product Support, etc
- Hands-on experience working in customer facing roles.
- Ability to multitask and efficiently handle multiple competing priorities, delegating when necessary while being highly organized, detail oriented, and demonstrating excellent time management skills.
- Empathetic mindset for the customer and a commitment to delving deep into the challenges they present or experience.
- Ability to work cross-functionally and contribute directly to Sales, Product and Engineering teams.
- Ability and desire to learn new tools and technologies.
- Familiarity with web APIs, SDKs, and other technical frameworks is a plus.
- Must be able to read/write basic scripts in languages Python, JS, or Golang.
- Knowledge of common source control managers such as gitlab or bitbucket.

Nice to Haves:

- CS degree or equivalent industry experience.
- Experience with open source, vulnerability management / SCA
- Hands on experience working with medium to large customers up to 1000 employees.
- Relevant security domain experience and familiarity with vulnerability management SCA tools.
- Experience with AI and Large Language Models (LLM)

Our Interview Process

- Phone Screen with our Talent Team
- Virtual f2f with the Hiring Manager
- Virtual f2f with a few members of the team
- Presentation
- Call with our VP of Customer Engineering
- Final call with our Founder
- 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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