Lead Software Engineer, Security

<h3><strong>SeatGeek believes live events are powerful experiences that unite humans. With our technological savvy and fan-first attitude we’re simplifying and modernizing the </strong><strong>ticketing industry.</strong></h3> <p>SeatGeek is looking for a security engineering professional for our Security team. As a Lead Software Engineer, Security, you’ll be involved in a mix of incident response, threat hunting, security engineering, and a trace of red teaming.</p> <p>You’ll be leading critical security initiatives that strengthen our secure-by-default posture across our platform, products, and company. You’ll pair architectural guidance with hands-on engineering — building paved roads, tooling, and automated detection/response that scale. You’ll operate in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, partnering with both engineering and non-engineering teams to reduce risk without slowing builders down. As a lead engineer, you’ll own high-impact work end-to-end, mentor teammates, and help shape the roadmap and culture that make the secure path the easy path — from cloud and code to laptops, identity, email, and awareness.</p> <h3><strong>What you'll do</strong></h3> <ul> <li>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</li> <li>Provide practical security guidance on new products and technologies, emphasizing secure-by-default patterns that fit seamlessly into existing workflows</li> <li>Lead design reviews and threat modeling for high-impact features and services; identify risks early and ensure mitigations are designed in</li> <li>Build and scale security tooling that prevents issues at build/deploy time and automates detection and response in production</li> <li>Evolve our detection and incident response capabilities — improve signal quality, tune detections, and implement automated responders to reduce manual toil and time to contain</li> <li>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)</li> <li>Protect SeatGeek from abuse and bots at the edge and app layers through layered defenses and tuning</li> <li>Lead and participate in notable security incidents and tabletops; improve runbooks, processes, and stakeholder communications after each event</li> <li>Mentor engineers, uplevel secure coding practices, and contribute to a positive, pragmatic security culture across the company</li> </ul> <h3><strong>What you have</strong></h3> <ul> <li>5+ years of b