Senior Data Engineer
SOCKET
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Design and build scalable data pipelines that ingest, process, and transform high-volume event streams and historical data
- Develop and maintain APIs that deliver analytics, trend reports, and drill-down capabilities to internal teams and external customers
- Build robust infrastructure for data quality monitoring, ensuring accuracy and completeness across customer and artifact datasets
- Optimize data storage and query performance using systems like ClickHouse, Kafka, NATS, and PostgreSQL to support real-time and batch use cases
- Implement usage tracking, auditing, and event processing systems that provide visibility into platform behavior
- Create reliable data ingestion systems for security scan results, SBOM data, and artifact metadata
- Build infrastructure for outbound integrations that deliver Socket data to customer systems
- Collaborate with product, security research, and engineering teams to understand data needs and deliver solutions that scale
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience building data pipelines and infrastructure in production environments
- Strong proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript for backend development
- Experience with streaming data platforms (e.g., Kafka, NATS, RabbitMQ, Kinesis) and event-driven architectures
- Hands-on experience with columnar databases and OLAP systems (ClickHouse, BigQuery, Snowflake, DuckDB, or similar)
- Solid understanding of data modeling, schema design, and query optimization
- Familiarity with cloud data lake technologies (Delta Lake, Iceberg, Parquet, etc.)
- Experience building REST APIs and data access layers for analytics use cases
- Comfort working with large-scale distributed systems and debugging performance bottlenecks
- Strong ownership mindset - you take responsibility for the systems you build and ensure they're reliable
- Clear communication skills; you can explain technical trade-offs to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Market competitive salary bands
- Meaningful equity program
- Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family
- Flexible time-off, holidays, and winter shutdown to rest & recharge
- Paid parental leave
- Remote-first, with quarterly team off-sites
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
data pipelinesAPIsdata quality monitoringdata storage optimizationquery performanceNode.jsTypeScriptstreaming data platformscolumnar databasesdata modeling
Soft skills
strong ownership mindsetclear communication skills