Senior Software Engineer - Edge-Services Security

Stub Hub is on a mission to redefine the live event experience on a global scale. Whether someone is looking to attend their first event or their hundredth, we’re here to delight them all the way from the moment they start looking for a ticket until they step through the gate. The same goes for our sellers. From fans selling a single ticket to the promoters of a worldwide stadium tour, we want Stub Hub to be the safest, most convenient way to offer a ticket to the millions of fans who browse our platform around the world.

Join Stub Hub's Edge Services team as a Software/Security Engineer and help shape the global infrastructure that keeps millions of fans connected, secure, and engaged—right at the edge. You'll work on state of the art CDN architecture, advanced bot mitigation, and real-time fraud defenses, collaborating with top-tier security and platform teams to drive innovation at massive scale. This is your chance to build resilient, high-performance systems that directly power one of the largest live event marketplaces in the world.

Location:

Hybrid (3 days in office/2 days remote) – New York, NY or Century City, CA or Aliso Viejo, CAAbout the team:

The Edge Services team at Stub Hub owns the platform that powers our global content delivery and edge security posture. The team is responsible for CDN infrastructure, bot management, DNS, and traffic-layer protections that help keep our customers safe and our site performant. The team treats edge infrastructure like a product—standardizing interfaces, applying zero-trust principles to edge security, and building scalable tooling to enable internal teams.

The team collaborates closely with Security Engineering, SRE, and product development teams to provide best in class availability, reliability & security of Stub Hub’s edge-services.

What You’ll Do:

Design, implement, and operate CDN infrastructure using AWS Cloud Front, Global Accelerator, bot management, and related services. Develop scalable systems for detecting and mitigating malicious automated traffic, using both commercial bot management platforms and homegrown controls. Codify reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) modules to enable other teams to deploy edge services safely and consistently. Integrate with fraud detection pipelines to inform real-time blocking or scoring decisions at the edge.

Collaborate with security and platform teams to enforce zero-trust controls, request validation, and origin shielding. Integrate CDN & bot management application coverage into existing developer platform software & automation products. Drive edge observability strategy using metrics, traces, and logs to detect anomalies and optimize performance. Evaluate and implement new technologies (e.g., edge compute, rate limiting frameworks, multi-CDN failover strategies). Participate in incident response and root cause analysis for edge service outages or abuse-related escalations.

What You’ve Done:

Expert level experience with AWS edge and networking services (Cloud Front, WAF, Route
53, Shield, Global Accelerator). Expert level proficiency with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code patterns in production. Deep experience implementing or operating enterprise-grade bot management platforms (e.g., HUMAN, AWS Bot Control, Cloudflare Bot Management, Akamai Bot Manager). Advanced knowledge of HTTP protocol, CDN caching strategies, edge compute functions (e.g., Lambda@Edge), and TLS management. Strong software development experience in a modern language (e.g., Python, Go, Type Script, Java).

Track record of building safe, observable, and performant infrastructure iliarity with building and scaling fraud prevention systems or integrating with fraud intelligence platforms is a plus. Preferred Skills and

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