Versant Media

Design and maintain reliable payment processing and fund distribution systems meeting regulatory standards. | 5+ years backend experience with 2+ years senior role, strong C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, payment processing, cloud and security knowledge. | VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass. Job Description Versant is seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to join our FinTech team and help design, build, and scale high-quality global software solutions that handle high-volume payment processing and fund distribution. In this role you will collaborate closely with product managers, finance, compliance, engineering peers, and our QA team to drive technical initiatives, being responsible for ensuring money flows reliably, securely, and on time across our platform and that everything meets or exceeds strict performance and regulatory standards. This role is ideal for engineers who have an open mind for innovation and expansion but also a clear understanding and appreciation for regulations and standards. What You'll Do As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you will: • Design, implement, and maintain reliable systems for processing payments, scheduling payouts, and reconciling transactions. • Ensure funds distribution happens on time and at scale, with strong SLAs and monitoring. • Collaborate with Finance, Compliance, and Product teams to build features that meet regulatory, tax, and reporting requirements • Integrate with third-party payment processors, banks, and financial networks (ACH, wire transfers, card processors, digital wallets) • Architect systems for auditability, security, and fault tolerance across distributed services • Implement and improve automated reconciliation, ledgering, and reporting pipelines • Lead technical discussions on scalability, reliability, and fraud prevention in payment systems. • Work closely with first party and third party integrators, contribute to code reviews, and promote engineering best practices. • Drive process improvements in CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and observability for financial workflows. Qualifications WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR: • 5+ years of experience building backend systems, with at least 2 years in a senior/lead capacity • Strong proficiency in C#, ASP.NET (Web API) and SQL Server • Hands-on experience with payment processing, banking integrations, or financial transaction systems • Deep understanding of databases and transactional integrity (SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, or NoSQL systems) • Familiarity with event-driven architectures, queues, and schedulers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS/SNS, etc.) • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code • Knowledge of security and compliance standards for payments (PCI DSS, SOC 2, GDPR) • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering, finance, and business teams • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience Bonus Points For • Experience with NodeJS, TypeScript and Angular. Experience with Mobile development (.NET MAUI, Objective-C, Android, etc.) • Experience working with ACH, SEPA, card networks, or real-time payment rails • Background in ledgering systems, accounting workflows, or treasury operations • Familiarity with fraud detection and risk mitigation strategies Fully Remote: This role has been designated as fully remote, meaning it is expected to be performed from a non-Versant worksite, typically an employee’s residence. Occasional travel is required and can range from within the country (typical, various times of the year) to global (not typical but still possible). Additional Information As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to candidateaccessibility@versantmedia.com. VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc. VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means.

Lead and support cyber and insider risk investigations, triage alerts, collect evidence, document findings, and coordinate mitigation. | Experience in incident response, security operations, cyber investigations, and familiarity with SIEM, SOAR, EDR, DLP, and threat intelligence tools. | The Senior Investigator role leads and supports investigations involving cyber incidents, insider risk, data loss, unauthorized disclosure, suspicious user activity, employee-related security concerns, high-risk users, and other sensitive matters requiring coordinated handling. This is an investigation led role. The investigator will triage alerts, scope activity, collect and preserve evidence, correlate technical and behavioral indicators, document findings, brief stakeholders, and recommend proportionate mitigation actions. The role requires incident response judgment, strong documentation, discretion, and working knowledge of SIEM, SOAR, EDR, DLP, identity, endpoint, and threat intelligence tools. Core Responsibilities Cyber & Sensitive Investigations • Lead and support investigations involving cyber incidents, insider-risk alerts, data misuse, policy violations, unauthorized disclosure, suspicious user activity, and other sensitive security matters • Triage alerts, scope activity, identify affected users, systems, data, and business processes, and determine investigation priority based on risk and impact • Prepare clear investigation summaries, findings, recommendations, and executive-ready updates for Cyber Security leadership, Legal, HR, Compliance, and business stakeholders Threat Analysis • Apply incident response methodology to assess suspicious activity, determine root cause, validate impact, and support containment or remediation actions • Correlate endpoint, network, identity, cloud, email, and user-behavior evidence to distinguish benign activity from policy violations, compromise, or intentional misuse • Use threat intelligence and investigative tooling to enrich cases, validate indicators, improve detections, and support proactive risk reduction Insider Risk Detection & Management • Identify and assess insider-risk indicators across DLP, UEBA, identity, endpoint, cloud, collaboration, and security monitoring platforms • Investigate potential data exfiltration, unauthorized access, abnormal file movement, misuse of sensitive information, and risky behavior by employees, contractors, or privileged users • Monitor high-risk scenarios including employee departures, role changes, privileged access, high-risk travel, sensitive projects, and repeat policy violations Case Management, Evidence & Documentation • Maintain complete case documentation from intake through closure, including timeline, evidence sources, investigative actions, findings, risk assessment, and mitigation decisions • Preserve evidence integrity and maintain chain of custody where required for cyber, employee, legal, or compliance-sensitive matters • Ensure cases are handled confidentially, consistently, and in alignment with company policy, privacy expectations, legal guidance, and HR direction Cross-Functional Coordination & Mitigation • Serve as a trusted investigation partner to Cyber Security, Legal, HR, Compliance, IT, business leadership, and other stakeholders involved in sensitive cases • Coordinate escalation, containment, access changes, monitoring, employee action, clean-device workflows, post-travel review, or other mitigation steps with the appropriate owners • Translate technical findings into clear business risk language for non-technical stakeholders while preserving investigative accurac • Experience in incident response, security operations, cyber investigations, threat intelligence, insider-risk investigations, or sensitive security matters with a focus on APT groups. • Hands-on familiarity with SIEM, SOAR, EDR, DLP, case management, identity, endpoint, cloud, and threat intelligence platforms • Experience briefing technical and non-technical stakeholders, including Cyber Security leadership, Legal, HR, Compliance, and executive audiences • Background in operations security, information security, personnel security, physical security, intelligence, compliance, or security program management • Strong written documentation, evidence handling, judgment, discretion, collaboration, and time-management skills; bilingual communication and cleared-environment experience are advantageous Key Outcomes • Consistent, defensible handling of cyber and sensitive employee-related investigations • Earlier identification and mitigation of insider threat, data misuse, and human-driven security risk • Improved investigation quality through better evidence collection, case documentation, and stakeholder reporting • Stronger alignment between Cyber Security, Legal, HR, Compliance, IT, and business leadership on sensitive cases As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. For LA County and City Residents Only: VERSANT Media will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, or arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to candidateaccessibility@versantmedia.com. VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc. VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means. VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant’s sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.