Lead Software Engineer, Security

🕒 February 25

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $170k - $248k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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SeatGeek

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2009

🛍️ eCommerce

⚽ Sports

💰 $238M Series E on 2022-08

eCommerce • Entertainment • Sports

SeatGeek is a mobile-focused ticket platform that allows users to buy and sell tickets for live events such as sports, concerts, and theater performances. With an easy-to-use interface, SeatGeek integrates event listings, ticket purchasing, and resale in one place. The platform enhances the user's experience by offering personalized recommendations and insights into event trends. Furthermore, SeatGeek provides a comprehensive array of listings for major sports, music, and entertainment events, positioning itself as a go-to source for fans seeking tickets. The company's operations and offerings emphasize a seamless experience in accessing and enjoying live entertainment.

📋 Description

• Deliver proactive, secure-by-default protections across the stack (cloud, CI/CD, applications, and endpoints) by creating paved roads and guardrails that reduce risk at scale and become the default way to build • Provide practical security guidance on new products and technologies, emphasizing secure-by-default patterns that fit seamlessly into existing workflows • Lead design reviews and threat modeling for high-impact features and services; identify risks early and ensure mitigations are designed in • Build and scale security tooling that prevents issues at build/deploy time and automates detection and response in production • Evolve our detection and incident response capabilities — improve signal quality, tune detections, and implement automated responders to reduce manual toil and time to contain • Partner across business functions to strengthen company-wide security: endpoint and device trust, identity and email protections, security awareness and training, vendor reviews and risk assessments, and support for compliance (e.g., PCI/SOX) • Protect SeatGeek from abuse and bots at the edge and app layers through layered defenses and tuning • Lead and participate in notable security incidents and tabletops; improve runbooks, processes, and stakeholder communications after each event • Mentor engineers, uplevel secure coding practices, and contribute to a positive, pragmatic security culture across the company

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of broad, hands-on experience across multiple security domains, with strong software engineering fundamentals; track record of leading cross-domain security projects end-to-end (from design through rollout and adoption) • Proficiency in one or more programming languages (we use Python, Go, and C#); you write production-quality code and perform rigorous reviews for correctness and security • Track record of partnering across product, platform, and business functions to drive company-wide security outcomes • Proven ability to deliver holistic, scalable prevention across security domains (platform/cloud, applications, CI/CD, identity and endpoints), favoring paved roads and default guardrails over one-off fixes • Ability to think like both an attacker and a defender — leveraging each perspective to strengthen the other and drive meaningful improvements in prevention, detection, and response • Community contributions (research, talks/blogging/OSS) and hands-on bot/abuse mitigation experience are a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity stake • Flexible work environment, allowing you to work as many days a week in the office as you’d like or 100% remotely • A WFH stipend to support your home office setup • Unlimited PTO • Up to 16 weeks of fully-paid family leave • 401(k) matching • Student loan matching program • Health, vision, dental, and life insurance • Up to $25k towards family building, reproductive health services and Gender-affirming care • $500 per year for wellness expenses • Subscriptions to Headspace (meditation), Headspace Care (therapy), and One Medical • $120 per month to spend on tickets to live events • Annual subscription to Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon music