Compliance Engineering Lead

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 to see for yourself!) Founded by Feross Aboukhadijeh , a long-time open source maintainer with software downloaded over a billion times a month, Socket has raised $ 125M in funding from top angels, operators, and security leaders. About the Role We are hiring a Compliance Engineering Lead to own compliance as an engineered system rather than a calendar of reminders. Socket sells to security teams. Our customers ask harder questions than most buyers ask, and they are right to. That means our SOC 2 Type II, our path to ISO 27001, our risk and vendor programs, and the assurance artifacts we put in front of enterprise buyers all have to be genuinely well run, not merely present. The credibility of what we sell depends on it. This is a foundational role, and it is deliberately an engineering role. The person we want does not manage compliance by chasing people for screenshots. They write code against APIs, build control tests that run on a schedule and fail loudly, and treat evidence collection as a pipeline with an owner and an SLA. You will own the compliance platform decision, including whether the platform we use today is the right one. If your answer is that we should bu