Socket
Provides fiber-optic internet and voice services to Missouri residents.
Company facts
- Founded
- 1994
- Employees
- 150
- Headquarters
- United States
- Type
- Private
- Funding
- Private Equity · 2025
About
Socket is a local phone and internet service provider, dedicated to serving Missouri homes and businesses since 1994. The company started as a small dial-up internet service provider and has grown into a comprehensive telecommunications network. Over the years, Socket has evolved to meet the growing demand for high-quality internet and phone services. Initially offering basic dial-up connections, the company transitioned to DSL and eventually developed a fiber optic network that serves thousands of customers across Missouri. Today, Socket is committed to providing fast, reliable internet, phone, and television services with a focus on customer satisfaction.
Open positions

Vulnerability Research Software Engineer
Remote software engineer at Socket building and scaling patching infrastructure for open source supply chain security: creating patches for critical vulnerabilities, building CLI tooling, package-manager integrations, and APIs. Core stack is Rust on Unix/Linux plus Node.js/TypeScript/React.

Member of Technical Staff
Build Socket's web application end-to-end—React/TypeScript frontend, Node.js APIs, Postgres backend—helping security teams and devs safely manage open source code.

Engineering Manager
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…