Platform Engineer - Content Protection

25 days ago

Berlin, Germany +2 moreSenior

Responsibilities

Build, operate, test, deploy, tune, validate, and retire WAF signals, policies, and rules for automated scraping, content extraction, and abusive traffic.
Implement bot management, rate limiting, traffic shaping, and staged rollout strategies while protecting legitimate users and discoverability.
Lead detection, escalation, mitigation, and recovery for scraping, DDoS, automated-abuse, enumeration, and traffic-related incidents.
Maintain operational playbooks, runbooks, governance processes, and measurable content-protection workflows.
Own the day-to-day technical relationship with Fastly Managed Security Services and operationalize vendor recommendations.
Collaborate with analytics, SEO, product, platform engineering, and security teams on traffic controls, crawler access, architecture, and emerging AI-agent use cases.

Hands-on WAF engineering experience, preferably with Fastly Next-Gen WAF, Signal Sciences, or equivalent platforms.
Experience implementing bot management, rate limiting, and traffic-management controls.
Experience responding to scraping, DDoS, automated abuse, or similar traffic-management incidents.
Strong understanding of HTTP, TLS, CDN, and edge technologies.
Ability to balance security, operational, and business considerations when designing controls.
Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills.
Experience with Fastly, Signal Sciences, edge compute, or similar technologies is desirable.
Experience working with security operations or managed security services teams is desirable.
Experience with entitlement, identity, or access-management systems is desirable.
Understanding of SEO, crawler behavior, digital discoverability, academic publishing, research platforms, content-rich digital businesses, or emerging AI and agentic access use cases is desirable.

10,000+ employees