StubHub

Senior Software Engineer - Edge-Services Security

New York, New York, United States · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 6 days ago

TypeScriptPythonJavaGoSwiftAWSTerraformSite Reliability EngineeringCybersecurityIncident ResponseDNSFirewallZero Trust

About the role

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 c ollaborate s closely with S ecurity E ngineering, SRE, and product development t eams to provide best in class availability, reliability & security of StubHub's edge-services.

Design, implement, and operate CDN infrastructure using AWS CloudFront, 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.
Collaborate with security and platform teams to enforce zero-trust controls, request validation, and origin shielding.
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).
Track record of building safe, observable, and performant infrastructure at scale.
Accelerated Growth Environment: An environment designed for swift skill and knowledge enhancement, where you have the autonomy to lead experiments and tests on a massive scale.

Experience authoring real-time request evaluation logic at the edge.
Familiarity with HTTP/2, QUIC, and emerging transport protocols for low-latency content delivery.
Familiarity with custom device fingerprinting, rate limiting, and CAPTCHA challenge orchestration.
Experience supporting traffic segmentation, geo-steering, or multi-CDN architecture.
Proficiency in implementing defense-in-depth mechanisms for Layer 7 attacks.
Proficiency in building distributed rate-limiting or request scoring systems.
Background in high-scale event collection and processing for edge analytics.
Familiarity with principles of secure system design and zero-trust architectures.
Contributions to open-source projects in the edge, networking, or observability space.

Expert level experience with AWS edge and networking services (CloudFront, WAF, Route53, 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, TypeScript, Java).
Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

Top Tier Compensation Package: Competitive base, equity, and upside that tracks with your impact.

Top Tier Compensation Package: Competitive base, equity, and upside that tracks with your impact.
Integrate CDN & bot management application coverage into existing developer platform software & automation products.

The Edge Services team at StubHub owns the platform that powers our global content delivery and edge security posture.
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.
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.
Participate in incident response and root cause analysis for edge service outages or abuse-related escalations.
What You've Done:

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