[Hiring] Engineering Manager @Socket

Role Description

We're hiring an Engineering Manager to help lead our engineering team as we scale. In 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.

We'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.

What You'll Do

• Lead and grow a high-performing team of engineers by building a culture of trust, ownership, and autonomy.
• Partner closely with engineering and go-to-market stakeholders to ensure the team is solving the right problems.
• Stay engaged with technical decisions, helping the team reason through architecture, trade-offs, and complexity.
• Improve the process of how we work, identifying bottlenecks, refining processes, and automating away toil.
• Bring clarity to ambiguous problems by helping the team align on priorities and maintain strong execution.
• Balance long-term technical investments with near-term business needs.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering teams in a fast-moving environment.
• Instinct to step toward ambiguous or unowned problems.
• Strong technical judgment and ability to engage in architectural discussions.
• Comfort working in a TypeScript/JavaScript ecosystem is a plus.
• Strong product sense: able to talk directly to customers and determine how a product should work.
• Effective communication that keeps other teams informed on your team’s goals and progress.
• Experience managing in a remote environment, ideally with a globally-distributed team.

Benefits

• 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.