Senior 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 Senior Software Engineer, Security, you’ll be involved in a mix of security engineering, product security, incident response, and a trace of red teaming.</p> <p>You’ll be involved with 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 senior engineer, you'll own meaningful work end-to-end and help make the secure path the easy path — from cloud and code to laptops, identity, email, and awareness — including the AI tools reshaping how we build.</p> <p>If this role sounds interesting to you, we encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn’t match every requirement - we value curiosity, collaboration, and a willingness to learn!</p> <h3><strong>What you'll do</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Build and contribute to secure-by-default protections across the stack (cloud, CI/CD, applications, and endpoints) by creating paved roads and guardrails that make the secure path the easy path within your problem space</li> <li>Provide practical security guidance on new products and technologies, recommending secure-by-default patterns that fit into existing workflows</li> <li>Help secure SeatGeek's use of AI — from LLM-assisted development to AI-powered product features — by building guardrails and reviewing for risks like prompt injection, sensitive-data exposure, and insecure model and tool integrations</li> <li>Contribute to design reviews and threat modeling for high-impact features and services; surface risks early and help ensure mitigations are designed in</li> <li>Build security tooling that prevents issues at build/deploy time and helps automate detection and response in production</li> <li>Improve our detection and incident response capabilities — raise signal quality, tune detections, and implement automated responders that reduce manual toil and time to contain</li> <li>Partner with engineering and business teams on cross-functional security work: endpoint and device trust, identity and email protections, security awareness and training, vendor reviews and risk assessments, and supporting compliance efforts (e.g., PCI/SOX)</li> <li>Protect SeatGeek from abuse and bots