Senior Software Engineer (Edge Services Security)

Location: Hybrid, with 3 days in office and 2 days remote, in New York, NY, Century City, CA, or Aliso Viejo, CA.

Base annual salary: $200,000–$250,000 USD, plus equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global operates a global marketplace for buying and selling tickets to live events, serving customers in 195 countries through hirify.global and viagogo.

What you will do

• Design, implement, and operate CDN infrastructure using AWS CloudFront, Global Accelerator, bot management, and related services.
• Build scalable systems for detecting and mitigating malicious automated traffic using commercial bot platforms and custom controls.
• Create reusable Terraform and infrastructure-as-code modules for safe, consistent edge-service deployment.
• Integrate fraud detection pipelines, request validation, zero-trust controls, origin shielding, and edge application coverage into platform automation.
• Drive observability through metrics, traces, and logs; evaluate edge compute, rate limiting, and multi-CDN failover technologies.
• Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis for outages and abuse-related escalations.

Requirements

• Expert-level experience with AWS edge and networking services, including CloudFront, WAF, Route 53, Shield, and Global Accelerator.
• Expert-level production experience with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code patterns.
• Deep experience implementing or operating enterprise-grade bot management platforms such as HUMAN, AWS Bot Control, Cloudflare Bot Management, or Akamai Bot Manager.
• Advanced knowledge of HTTP, CDN caching strategies, edge compute functions such as Lambda@Edge, and TLS management.
• Strong software development experience in Python, Go, TypeScript, Java, or another modern language.
• Track record of building safe, observable, and performant infrastructure at scale.

Nice to have

• Experience with fraud-prevention systems or fraud-intelligence platforms.
• Experience authoring real-time request-evaluation logic at the edge.
• Familiarity with HTTP/2, QUIC, custom device fingerprinting, rate limiting, CAPTCHA orchestration, traffic segmentation, geo-steering, and multi-CDN architecture.
• Background in high-scale event collection and processing for edge analytics.
• Experience with Layer 7 defense-in-depth, distributed rate limiting, request scoring, secure system design, and zero-trust architectures.
• Open-source contributions in edge, networking, or observability.

Culture & Benefits

• Autonomy to lead experiments and tests at massive scale.
• Unlimited flexible time off.
• Competitive base compensation, equity, and performance upside.
• Benefits include 401(k), health, vision, dental insurance, paid parental leave, and paid time off.