SecurityDevOps/Cloud
SOC 2
Also written as SOC2, Service Organization Control 2
An audit standard covering how a company handles customer data — security, availability and confidentiality. Frequently a precondition for enterprise sales.
Think of it like
A food-hygiene rating for a software company: an outside inspector confirming the practices you claim to follow.
Junior or senior?
Junior sounds like
Mentions having been through an audit.
Senior sounds like
Describes what changed engineering practice — access reviews, logging, change control — rather than the certificate.
Ask them
“What changed about how engineers worked day to day because of SOC 2?”