Platform Engineer - Content Protection
Springer Nature2 months 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.
Requirements
- 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.
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About Springer Nature
Springer Nature publishes peer-reviewed journals and books and operates platforms for researchers, clinicians, and educators, earning revenue from institutional subscriptions and open-access publishing fees. Its brands include Nature, Springer, BMC, Palgrave Macmillan, and Apress. The company was formed in 2015 and is headquartered in Berlin.